My Blogging Days Are Over

Jeff,

Since watching your very early thought leadership on the drug war, I’ve considered that the highest and best purpose for your smart, confident libertarian voice and ready-for-prime-time composure is to reach as broad an audience as possible. I’m not sure how much time the blog took, but support the decision to focus on reaching established, broad audiences if that is the tradeoff. Your readership here is already on board.

You might consider having future op-ed articles picked up and archived on Lew Rockwell if an agreement could be reached. I hope it can.

Although I hold out little hope for the political will to correct fundamental governance problems and trends in the United States without a crisis many times worse than 2008, I do see progress in the areas of your speciality, particularly in regards to soft drug decriminalization (and likely legalization for taxation), along with new movement on the existing 21+ prohibition on alcohol. The value of your voice and standing in these debates is high.

Thank you for being willing to make such a public commitment to so many principled ideas. Many of us would love to do the same but have employment or other factors that create unfortunate constraints. We are relying on voices like yours to speak for us.

Have to add another comment to the “Nooooo!” brigade – this is my favorite blog – I find your commentary refreshing, insightful, and it’s a guilty pleasure b/c it is soooo entertaining too. Noone will hold an occasional post against you! Thanks for all the efforts this blog has entailed.