I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money’s the problem. But drugs are just drugs.

Garcia reframes “the drug problem” as a social and political problem: substances themselves are inert, while harm arises from the structures surrounding them—criminalization, policing, and the money incentives tied to illicit markets. The quote implies that moral panic about drugs can distract from deeper causes of violence and corruption, and that enforcement regimes may generate crime rather than reduce it. Coming from a musician long associated (fairly or not) with countercultural drug narratives, the statement also reads as a critique of scapegoating: blaming chemicals is easier than confronting systemic issues like inequality, profit motives, and the power dynamics of law enforcement.