Atheist inmate settles for $1.95 million over 12-step drug rehab that included prayer

[AlbertCat]

6. I got caught speeding with a roach in the ash ashtray

But since the cop didn't "smell" anything (his reason for searching the car) until after he was returning my license and reg, and because I obviously wasn't under the influence of anything (I hadn't smoked) I got off easy.

I was sent to 15 NA meetings. I was to right a little essay after each meeting telling what I learned.

This was cruel and unusual punishment!

What I learn was NA is a religious cult. I leaned some folks are hooked on NA meetings. I learned the churches charged the group rent for the rooms they used. I learned only one group (I went to several different ones) was racially mixed. I learned the meetings were big pity parties with no professionals to guide or inform the people there. I learned the young ones were particularly hostile and mean.

I learned, were I a narcotics abuser, NA would be useless.

My lawyer told me my essays would not please the judge. I said "they didn't tell me to please the judge." But there was no way I was doing it again. I started screaming into the phone that the state had sent me to a religious cult full of narcotic users because of a roach..... My lawyer cut me off and told me to write one little essay and not to be harsh. I did. That was the end of it.