She took them on a family trip.
Jaden Smith revealed his mom Jada Pinkett Smith is the driving force behind their family’s psychedelic drug usage.
“I think it was my mom, actually, that was really the first one to make that step for the family,” the 24-year-old rapper said at the Psychedelic Science conference in Denver this week, according to USA Today.
The “Red Table Talk” host, 51, shares Jaden and daughter Willow, 22, with husband Will Smith. The “Hitch” actor, 54, also shares 30-year-old son Trey with ex-wife Sheree Zampino.
“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,” Jaden said.
The “Icon” artist also claimed that using psychedelics has helped him form stronger relationships with his sister and his half-brother in a “profound” way.
“Siblings can argue so much and fight so much, and lord knows me and my siblings have done so much of that in the past,” he shared.
“But the level of love and empathy that I can feel for them inside of the [psychedelic] experiences and outside of the experiences has been something that’s profound and beautiful.”
The effects have been so powerful for the Smith family, that Jaden claims he and his siblings were enabled to work through arguments.
“It will actually help us to open up our minds to get out of the old ways of thinking that got us into lots of these arguments and open it up so that it just releases and makes room for you to work it out and massage it out until it’s completely gone,” Jaden said.
There are several types of psychedelics including psilocybin (also known as mushrooms), ayahuasca, LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) and mescaline, though Jaden didn’t specify which kinds his family uses.
Jaden previously discussed experimenting with magic mushrooms in 2022.
“I believe that mushrooms are going to help us expand consciousness. The collection is not just clothes to sell,” Jaden told Mr Porter Journal at the time, adding that his hallucinations inspired his MSFTSrep clothing collection titled “Trippy Summer.”
“It’s loaded with spiritual experiences and mystical states. We’re just making clothes that can go along with people’s journeys,” he added.
Meanwhile, Jada shared her story about battling drug and alcohol addiction.
“Drinking red wine for me was like drinking glasses of water,” she shared on her Facebook Watch show in 2021. “Because I’m used to that hard hit. I was drinking hard in high school, too, and when I got out here I was doing cocktails. So, ecstasy, alcohol, weed. Let me tell you, I was having myself a little ball.”
Jada admitted to being a binger and ultimately quit using drugs and alcohol “cold turkey.”
“I think back on my life, like, I am a walking miracle, no doubt about that,” she said.
Months later, Jada discussed using psychedelics to “knock out” her depression 10 years prior during a conversation with Jaden on “RTT.”
“It’s not successful for everybody,” she said of therapy and prescription medication. “I struggled with depression for so long. And the thing about the plant medicine is it helps you feel better but also solves the problems of how you got there in the first place.”
Meanwhile, the “King Richard” actor did ayahuasca 14 times in Peru over a two-year period around 2011.
He told David Letterman on “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction” in 2022 that he saw visions of his family and career crumbling.
“I realized that anything that happens in my life, I can handle it. I can handle any person I lose, I can handle anything that goes wrong in my life, I can handle anything in my marriage, I can handle anything that this life has to offer. That’s part of the psychological training that happens in ayahuasca.”
