Jaden Smith appears to be very close with his family. He made his film debut starring with his dad, Will Smith, in The Pursuit of Happyness (which can be watched with a Netflix subscription) and was on a mission to save his father in After Earth. While working on film projects together was one method of collaboration, the Smith family apparently does psychedelics together with the 24-year-old rapper/actor claiming it was his mother, Jada Pinkett Smith, who introduced the family to them.

Psychedelic drugs are substances that can change a person’s perceptions, mood, and cognitive functions. They can also cause you to see or hear things that aren’t there and make your world appear very distorted. As reported by USA Today, Jaden Smith spoke at the Psychedelic Science Conference in Denver about how he and his family were introduced to these psychedelic drugs, saying:

I think it was my mom, actually, that was really the first one to make that step for the family. It was just her for a really, really long time and then eventually it just trickled and evolved and everybody found it in their own ways.

According to E! Online, Jada Pinkett Smith shared that she started using psychedelics (particularly plant medicine) a decade ago to treat her depression. She felt like the substances helped her feel better, and she gained a new perspective on why she sensed the need to take them in the first place.