30 July 2007 - Virgin tycoon Sir Richard Branson has revealed that he has taken drugs with his son.
The extrovert billionaire says he smoked cannabis with model son Sam, now 21, during a surfing holiday in Australia.
Sir Richard, 57, "I went with my son on his gap year. We had some nights where we laughed our heads off for eight hours."
"I don't think smoking the occasional spliff is all that wrong. I'd rather my son did it in front of me than behind closed doors."
In the interview with Piers Morgan for GQ magazine, the entrepreneur also admitted trying cocaine and ecstasy.
At the Abu Dhabi World Leadership summit Richard Branson said that the fleet of his company Virgin Atlantic Airways is going to use biofuels produced from plant waste.
In an interview with a reporter from Reuters he said, that he was looking for alternative fuel sources and that even he was planning to start building cellulosic ethanol plants (to make) fuel that is derived from the waste product of the plant. He believes that the future of fuel is in this environmentally friendly technology, which over the next 20 or 30 years actually will replace the conventional fuel.
Virgin boss Richard Branson said last night that he would sell legalised Cannabis in his stores but not tobacco because it is too dangerous.
He said his company would not want to get involved in selling ordinary cigarettes - but he would not rule out promoting cannabis if the law allowed it because it was probably less harmful than tobacco.
April 1998 - British Protest To Legalize Marijuana Draws 10,000 - London, England"What we want to see is [Parliament] debating [legalizing marijuana] openly, freely, and weighing the evidence from the World Health Organization and from the British Medical Council," said Independent on Sunday editor Rosie Boycott, who attended the march. Recently, the campaign gained supporters in Parliament, as well as business giants Richard Branson of Virgin Atlantic Airways and Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop.
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