Comparing Labor Day Cannabis Deals: Connecticut and Massachusetts

Are you an adult over the age of 21? Are you planning on enjoying a fat bone Labor Day Weekend? Cannabis retailers in Connecticut, and way more in nearby Massachusetts, are offering special discounted prices to lure us in. Let's compare.

Before I get started, in my opinion, the cannabis industry in Massachusetts absolutely crushes Connecticut's. Massachusetts wins in product variety, price, availability, potency, suppliers, and retail outlets. Connecticut's cannabis landscape is a highly regulated toddler wobbling in the shadow of the Growing Green Monster. To be fair, one of the only products available in both states recreationally, in high potency, is vapes, 80-95% THC. Connecticut caps it's recreational flower at 30%THC, but 30%+ flower is everywhere in Massachusetts. Connecticut does not allow many forms of concentrates - wax, shatter, diamonds, rosin, or crumble, but kief and moonrocks? Sure.

Let's compare the specials at a retailer operating in both states - INSA - Hartford - Recreational, and INSA - Springfield - Recreational. In Hartford, 3.5 grams of CTPharma's A1 Haze flower, the most potent hybrid available with 21.97% THC is on sale this weekend for $35, normally $52. 20 miles North at INSA Springfield 3.5 grams of Amalfi Coast, hybrid - 32.11%THC is on sale Labor Day Weekend for $38.40.

In my hometown, Torrington's Still River Wellness does not appear to be offering a Labor Day discount on recreational cannabis. The closest Massachusetts dispensary to Torrington is The Pass in Sheffield, Massachusetts, where they're offering what Connecticut can't - $25 .5 grams of Pass concentrates.

NETA in Northampton, Massachusetts is offering a variety of .75 gram $4 Pre-Rolls, while the cheapest joint at Trulieve in Bristol, Connecticut is $13, and 5% THC weaker on average when compared to the PRJ's NETA offers.

Bargain hunters will do much better in Massachusetts this Labor Day Weekend, enjoy.