It's only a few people that spoil it, but yet we all get classed the same. Some people have worked really hard and spent a lot of money doing their cars.

And as for the police, no matter who they put their attitude to everybody is the same whether it was legal or not, driving safely or not.

Most people just like to get together and chat about what they've done to their car.

I think you should find out what cruising is all about instead of stereotyping everyone the same.

Katie Mawson, by email

Drugs hypocrisy

SO the use of cannabis has fallen since downgrading.

So almost 200,000 hours annually of police time has been saved.

So the link to schizophrenia and psychosis is probably far less than thought and associative rather than causitive.

Yet we have Gordon Brown ignoring the country's experts and potentially criminalising nearly three million non-violent users.

The Government's hypocrisy is astounding; the risk of mental health problems caused by alcohol is far greater than that of cannabis yet this now carries a five-year prison sentence.

As long as the distribution of cannabis is in the hands of violent gangsters then our kids will always be targeted.

As in Holland, we need to regulate and control the use of cannabis for adults. This reduces use for the under-18s and collect valuable tax revenue.

J R Leeson, Sheffield

Insult to Churchill

TO refer to Churchill as "a failed politician and mass murderer" is an insult to the man who proved to be the world's antidote to the holocaust, or has Mr Firth not heard of the scourge that threatened to dominate the world?

But for Winston Churchill, and many others who stood up for freedom, he would not be able to express his feelings to the media (if he was still alive).

ACR EDEN, Turnberry Avenue, Leeds