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Diondre Also Has Bad Days: Cannabis Use And The Criminalization Of Black Youth, Rommel Johnson
Diondre Also Has Bad Days: Cannabis Use And The Criminalization Of Black Youth, Rommel Johnson
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Black, school-aged youth may experience socioeconomic, psychological, and emotional difficulties that affect their mental health, leading to maladaptive ways of coping, such as cannabis use. Instead of getting treatment and support to help them manage their stressors in positive ways, Black youth often receive punitive school practices, including referrals to the juvenile justice system. Counselors who work with school-aged youth are likely to encounter many Black youth and can thus either be instrumental to their psychological development or inadvertently impede their well-being with over-pathologization and criminalization of their cannabis use. In this article, the author reflects on a particular experience …