Melissa Etheridge smokes pot with her kids: 'It brings you much closer'

However, the singer admitted that she's smoked weed with her two adult children - Bailey and Beckett.

"It wasn't about being high", she said of using medical marijuana in a new Yahoo documentary Weed and the American Family. She explained that it enhances sexual intimacy.

"My children have a very clear understanding of cannabis", the Grammy award-winning singer told Yahoo. And sleep is extremely important'. Crosby is the biological father of Etheridge's two adult kids, as he served as a sperm donor for the singer and her then-partner Julie Cypher in the 90s.

"It was amusing at first, and then they realized, it's a very natural, end-of-the-day (thing)", Etheridge told Yahoo in a new video interview. "It was amusing at first and then they realized it's a very natural end-of-the-day and it brings you closer, so I'd much rather have a smoke with my grown kids than a drink". The 10-year-old twins know about their parents' pot use.

Etheridge and Michaels had a commitment ceremony in 2003 but split in 2010.

Etheridge, 55, added that she believes there's a negative stigma surrounding cannabis, but has shared her feelings about the substance with her kids. "What are you doing?" "It wasn't about being high; it wasn't at all anything like that", she said.

'I smoked to be normal. I have my own smoke, some edibles and some [oil] cartridges. I smoked to lighten myself because you're poisoning yourself with chemo. Choosing marijuana over pharmaceuticals during chemotherapy allowed her to function: "It was just being to a place where I could communicate with my children, to where I could get up, to where I could eat. It was great medicine", she said.

Etheridge is now cancer-free, but continues to smoke.

Etheridge said that smoking with her two oldest kids has become an important part of her life.

'Cannabis is a part of my life. You have to [try] cannabis.

Tishler, a vocal advocate for both medicinal and recreational cannabis, said Etheridge's reasons for using marijuana echo those of many. That's really where I want to enter this market in - is for the person who is looking to unwind at night and not have a couple of drinks and feel like crap in the morning.

Previous year (16), Etheridge announced she is developing a line of cannabis products to help Californians suffering from arthritis.