Joyner pleaded “guilty” last month to three counts of “ice” trafficking.
“He should clean himself first before he can be a role model — otherwise it’s a comedy show for me,” Alex Cabrera, 16, of Garapan said.
He said Joyner, a basketball player, “does not even know what he wants so who is he to do something like that,” referring to the anti-drug crusade.
Jemma Tolentino, 14, for her part, believes that “Joyner only wants people to be compassionate about his situation.”
She added, “I do not think it is a good idea for him to campaign against drugs when he may have influenced people to do drugs before.”
Eight more teenagers and some students of Northern Marianas College interviewed by this reporter also expressed their doubts regarding Joyner’s plan to campaign against drugs.
‘It’s so funny how people can do something and claim another thing in just a second,” one of them said.
“He’s a pusher! Who would believe him?” another student said.
