smoking the leaves won't do too much from what i've heard, never tried it myself. but even if it does, i wouldn't recommend it - it will severly stunt/kill your plant - no way to do any photosynthesis w/o any leaves. growing in the rents house is difficult, you could hide it somewhere but it really needs uninterrupted light for many hours (18 for vegetative stage, 12 for flowering, up to 24 as a seedling!). if you can find some place in the closet or in a wall or something like that it *could* work but conditions will be far from ideal.