you're assuming that there is just one demographic that currently sells herb. I'm sure the black market retailers are just as diverse as any other legitimate market.

Legalization would benefit society to such a grand degree in terms of commercial hemp (paper, clothes, fuel, food, body products), that the few whose pockets would be effected would seem minor. If they were good at what they do, they'll continue to sell in a legal market. Legalization would increase quality, since there would be more competition and no one would tolerate shwaggy weed.

Look at amsterdam, they have dope legal shit, plus there are still guys on the street selling it.

I think all drugs should be legalized; all the ~$80 billion a year that goes out of the country to fund drug habits could be retained by the U.S. if there would legal drug merchants (a lot of that money funds terrorist groups).

To say that the nice guys making money from illegal herb now is a consideration to avoid legalization is kinda consistent with the special interests that washington considers in passing laws.