This Michigan company offers cannabis subscription boxes delivered to your door

For $100 a month, HighHello sends you a box packed with a variety of flower, edibles, concentrates, and vape cartridges, along with educational material



Walking into a cannabis dispensary can be overwhelming.

A Michigan-based company is poised to make the process easier and more educational with a monthly cannabis subscription club that delivers a curated box of products to your front door.

HighHello began its subscription service in metro Detroit last month. The company hopes to branch out to other areas of the state in the future.

For $100 a month, you get a box packed with a variety of flower, edibles, concentrates, and vape cartridges, along with educational material and a 15-minute virtual meeting with a bud tender. Smaller boxes are available for $75 if you prefer just flower, edibles, or concentrates.

https://www.metrotimes.com/weed/this-michigan-company-offers-cannabis-subscription-boxes-delivered-to-your-door-32608184

Louisa May Alcott

By Adrienne LaFrance

Little Women is the story for which Louisa May Alcott is most famous, but it captures just a sliver of her literary charisma. Alcott also wrote poetry, pulp fiction, and fairy stories, all with the same vivacity that made her magnetic to those who knew her. She is among the most beloved writers in the world, and certainly among the most famous ever to have graced the pages of this magazine. Her superstardom seems in retrospect to have been fated. In reality, however, it was not so straightforward.

Alcott spent her childhood surrounded by the transcendentalists of Concord, Massachusetts. Ralph Waldo Emerson, who was a founder of The Atlantic, was a dear friend and mentor to her, and she credited him for shaping her literary sensibility since childhood. As a teenager, she wrote him love letters. They are lost to history; Alcott burned them before she could send them. Still, on her frequent moonlit walks she would pick wildflowers and leave them on his doorstep.

In 1860, three years after this magazine’s founding, Alcott—then 27—had her first Atlantic short story published, “Love and Self-Love,” followed by “A Modern Cinderella: Or, the Little Old Shoe” a few months later. When war arrived, in April 1861, Alcott was discouraged that she could not serve in the Union Army. She was a fierce abolitionist and wanted to do her part. As Harriet Reisen wrote in her biography of Alcott, she spent the fall of 1861 feeling stuck—“wrote, read, sewed and wanted something to do.” She had tried teaching and despised it, which only intensified her will to write.

The following year, she submitted a manuscript to The Atlantic called “How I Went Out to Service,” a fictionalized account of her weird, short-lived experience as a domestic servant. The editor at the time, James T. Fields, was less interested in Alcott’s work than the magazine’s founding editor, James Russell Lowell, had been, and he rejected the essay. He advised her: “Stick to your teaching; you can’t write,” and enclosed an unsolicited loan of $40 so she could set up a schoolhouse.

https://www.theatlantic.com/the-writers-project/#Alcott

The Senate Labor Committee is holding a hearing on a package that would repeal ‘right to work’ and reinstate prevailing wage. Huge group here - mostly union workers - filling up multiple rooms and overflowing into the lobby.

Kicked off the hearing with a fight between senators.

Re: ‘Right to work,’ a really useful visual from @Simon_Schuster of @MLive, using U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

This shows how many workers have come to be covered by unions, despite not paying union dues, since RTW went into effect in Michigan a decade ago.

The Russians claimed that the Scandinavians would be freezing this winter.

This Norwegian man doesn’t look bothered.

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has sharply broken with Republicans who are determined to defend Ukraine against Russia’s invasion, saying in a statement made public on Monday night that protecting the European nation’s borders is not a vital U.S. interest and that policymakers should instead focus attention at home.

The statement from Mr. DeSantis, who is seen as an all but declared presidential candidate for the 2024 campaign, puts him in line with the front-runner for the G.O.P. nomination, former President Donald J. Trump.

The venue Mr. DeSantis chose for his statement on a major foreign policy question revealed almost as much as the substance of the statement itself. The statement was broadcast on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” on Fox News. It was in response to a questionnaire that the host, Mr. Carlson, sent last week to all major prospective Republican presidential candidates, and is tantamount to an acknowledgment by Mr. DeSantis that a candidacy is in the offing.

On Mr. Carlson’s show, Mr. DeSantis separated himself from Republicans who say the problem with Mr. Biden’s Ukraine policy is that he’s not doing enough. Mr. DeSantis made clear he thinks Mr. Biden is doing too much, without a clearly defined objective, and taking actions that risk provoking war between the U.S. and Russia.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/us/politics/ron-desantis-ukraine-tucker-carlson.html

Royal Oak showed up and showed up big.

@MalloryMcMorrow couldn't contain her excitement at seeing Michiganders sending one clear message to bigots.#HateWontWin

The “Grand New Party” decided to come to Royal Oak to protest a drag queen story time at one of our incredible independent book stores. Royal Oak said #HateWontWin. Loud. Hey @stevecarraMI maybe stick to your own district next time. We lead with love here. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

An editorial cartoon in the Citizens’ Council newspaper, July 1959, demonizing teachers and condemning assertions of racial equality, civil rights activism (note the NAACP poster) and integrated education.