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To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (19632)	10/29/2004 7:00:13 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Holly, I had a client last year that owned some apartments. They had a problem tenant they wanted to evict for smoking and burning plant matter on premises. The woman set up a defense that she practiced a native american religion, and "smudging" (essentially burning plant matter in a can to generate smoke) was part of her religious ceremony. She complained to the human rights commission. It took months to convince the agency this woman was nothing but a problem tenant who was using the religion angle to gew away with smoking in her apartment. I doubt the prison will be terribly lenient on folks who claim they need to smoke in relation to their religious ceremonies. What's next? Magic mushrooms? Shades of Carlos Castaneda.