Jaden Smith spoke at the Psychedelic Science conference in Colorado this week, where he credited his mother for introducing the family to psychedelics.

“I think it was my mom, actually, that was really the first one to make that step for the family,” he said. “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.”

The conference itself drew 11,000 speakers and attendees, and featured celebrities like Smith and Aaron Rodgers speaking on the benefits they personally have experienced from relevant drugs as well as scientists and academics speaking to the research behind it all.

“I struggled with depression for so long,” Jada Pinkett Smith herself said in 2021 during an episode of Red Table Talk that discussed mushrooms. “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.”

“You have to really wanna do it, this is not for play. You have to be willing to confront some hard stuff,” she added.

Her son has clearly had similarly positive experiences, as he additionally told conference attendees about how psychedelics helped him with his relationship with his siblings.

“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,” he said, adding, “The level of love and empathy that I can feel for [my siblings] inside of the [psychedelic] experiences and outside of the experiences has been something that’s profound and beautiful.”

Psychedelics are still illegal on a federal level, although certain states, like Colorado, have decriminalized or legalized certain drugs, while others are in the process of attempting similar reforms.