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dc.contributor.authorBilgrei, Ola Røed
dc.contributor.authorScheffels, Janne
dc.contributor.authorBuvik, Kristin
dc.contributor.authorTokle, Rikke
dc.coverage.spatialNorwayen_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-02T12:03:16Z
dc.date.available2022-08-02T12:03:16Z
dc.date.created2022-03-24T10:33:09Z
dc.date.issued2022-01-05
dc.identifier.citationDrugs: education prevention and policy. 2022, 1-9.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0968-7637
dc.identifier.issn1465-3370
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3009789
dc.description.abstractRecent years have seen a growing public debate concerning the political regulation of cannabis products, substantiated by a multitude of competing narratives about the effects of various policies. However, little is known about how these ongoing discussions influence the meaning-making of cannabis use within wider contemporary youth cultures. Based on interviews with 80 Norwegian adolescents aged 16–17 years, this study explores narratives of changing cannabis policies and the type of work that these stories do in adolescents’ identity-work. The analysis illustrates that the participants relied on several narrative frameworks that were characteristic of the drug political discourse. Interlinked with two contrasting political identities – the progressive and the conservative – the adolescents presented stories of how various regulatory reforms would either increase or decrease levels of cannabis use, as well as discussions of relative drug harms, and how reforms would potentially lead to negative or positive health outcomes. As such, these political narratives not only informed the young people’s understandings of cannabis use, but also helped to position them within their broader social, cultural, and political surroundings. The study demonstrates how adolescents make selective use of the drug-political narratives that circulate within contemporary society to negotiate issues of personal identity.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDrugs: education prevention and policy;
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjectCannabisen_US
dc.subjectDrug policiesen_US
dc.subjectAdolescenceen_US
dc.subjectYouthen_US
dc.subjectIdentitiesen_US
dc.subjectPolitical narrativesen_US
dc.titleThe green shift? Narratives of changing cannabis policies and identity-work among Norwegian adolescentsen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holder© 2022 Informa UK Limiteden_US
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cristin.fulltextoriginal
cristin.qualitycode1
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2021.2023468
dc.identifier.cristin2012208
dc.source.journalDrugs: education prevention and policyen_US
dc.source.pagenumber1-9en_US


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