Straight EdgeStraight edge is a clean living youth movement that emerged from the punk rock subculture in the early 1980s. Its basic tenets promote a drug free, tobacco free, and sexually responsible lifestyletenets that, on the surface, seem counter to those typical of teenage rebellion. For many straight edge kids, however, being clean and sober was (and still is) the ultimate expression of resistanceresistance to the consumerist and self indulgent ethos that