Happy and/or high in New England?

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Adapted from Robert Whitcomb’s “Digital Diary,’’ in GoLocal24.com

Rankings of places and institutions are often full of baloney because they’re comparing apples and oranges, but not always.

Here’s one from  last year that ranks, by certain  criteria, the happiest states. This one ranked Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, in that order, as the best.

Note that a cannabis company (!) did the rankings, in which, as in most rankings of states in health and other important criteria, the South is at the bottom.

Joy Organics said:

“There are lots of ideas as to what constitutes happiness for different people. With this research, we aimed to include a number of factors that either influence a state’s happiness or serve as indicators of it. Mental well being, support and suicide rates were weighted more heavily in the ranking, accounting for a larger proportion of each state’s overall score, as these were deemed to be the most important factors."

And easy access to marijuana products? Maybe not.