Provide evidence for your claim.
I can only see legalization leading to the same scenario as above. That means to me that trial lawyers will benefit,
I don't like trial lawyers---or used car salesmen. Shall we ban used car sales so used car salesmen don't benefit?
taxes will affect the poor far more than anyone else,
They have the choice to not buy the taxed item and thus not pay the tax.
and bootlegging will thrive anyways.
Cigarette bootlegging is small potatoes compared to marijuana smuggling; how many innocents have died in shootouts between cigarette bootleggers?