Story highlights Etheridge said her kids understand its her "medicine"

She said it's also aided date nights with her wife

(CNN) Melissa Etheridge has gotten high with a little help from her family.

The singer has revealed she has smoked marijuana with her 20-year-old daughter, Bailey Jean, and 18-year-old son, Beckett.

"It was funny at first, and then they realized it's very natural [at the] end of the day," Etheridge recently told Yahoo. "It brings you closer. I'd much rather have a smoke with my grown kids than a drink."

The "Come To My Window" star is now a cannabis advocate since she started using it medicinally after being diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer in October 2004.

Etheridge, who said she had smoked recreationally since she was in her twenties, said she learned about the benefits of using medicinal marijuana from good friend, singer David Crosby.

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