Shame on Mr Kidd (The Weekend Sun, February 8) for using the Church page as a political platform instead of uplifting the Saints and spreading the Gospel.

His narrow-minded, self-righteous bigotry based on an article from the Drug Foundation lacks personal experience and understanding.

Firstly, cannabis never harmed anybody – people harmed themselves by being greedy and indulging to the point of self-harm, the same as alcohol.

To continue with this draconian law which victimises, persecutes, imprisons and in some countries executes people will achieve nothing. The war on drugs has failed - the authorities admit this and the chemical poison sugar is doing far more harm than cannabis ever will.

And how dare he suggest that Christians who don't share his viewpoint and vote otherwise are not loving their neighbour.

Tell that to the man who had his leg amputated and used cannabis to alleviate the pain in his stump, and the nurses who turned a blind eye even though he broke all the rules. That was compassion and empathy and what I call ‘Christian love'.

Genesis 1:29-30 states: 'Then God said ‘I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth... They will be yours for food'.”

If someone wants to cook mull cookies they should be able to.

God says they can!

M Adams, independent Christian, Poike.