NAME: Dan Meyers

Straight Edge for 11 Years

I am one person who can say straightedge saved my life.  In my younger days I was involved with the wrong people.  The people I was “friends” with were pretty heavily involved with cocaine and some with meth.  I myself never went that far but I did drink a lot and smoked weed on a regular basis, but I was constantly pressured into doing cocaine.  I was headed down the wrong path, then in 1996 I started working with a straightedge kid.  I started hanging out with him and his friends, and eventually I became straightedge.  After I became straightedge I found out fast the people I thought where my friends really where not.  I was constantly told, oh true till 21, or true till college.  Well guess what, i went to college, and here I am 28 years old and still edge.  I am proud to say that I have been straightedge for 11 years and Courage Crew for 9 years.  I have gone through good times and bad times in life.  I have been heavily depressed and my Courage Crew brothers have been there for me, and I never had to resort to drugs or alcohol to deal with my problems.  Straightedge is not just a phase, it is how I live my life, and guess what, it is not hard.

Dan Meyers

Flint/Detroit, MI  CXCB