At first sight it may seem like a bit of a stretch: a Straight Edge writer writing a Young Adult novel about pot smoking and weed growing. As it turns out, juxtaposing straight edge with weed presented me with some very interesting plot twists. Straight Edge or not, if you are writing for YA you need to be true, you need to tell the tale from the heart, throw in your own experiences and make it as real as possible. If you don’t, they will prick right through it and trash you and your precious novel before you know it. So, where to go if you need to find your way in the land of the dazed, if you need to raise the veil…