That's true. As @genocidicbunny points out, there's still plenty of reason that this represents progress. Governments can create and make use of their own dar

That's true. As @genocidicbunny points out, there's still plenty of reason that this represents progress. Governments can create and make use of their own dark patterns against the citizenry they're suppose to serve and the interplay of federal and state agencies playing off each other to reduce the rights of victims here is particularly pernicious. It's also worth noting that while federal law does have some measure of precedence over state/local law... it's not as completely clear cut as you might think. First the U.S. Constitution itself has the 10th amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people". (https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-10/ https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-10/) Also consider that most drugs, such as cannabis, continue to be illegal according to federal law but that a fair number of states choose to simply ignore that in their own law enforcement/legal systems. So a federal law that addresses the federal parts of this problem is at the very least a serious step forward, if not a final step. There's some good discussion of this bill and why it's a good step forward here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpL7T6mBEiY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpL7T6mBEiY