⚖️ Same Play, New Jersey: The Veterans Equal Access Con Game
By The Homie Kit, In Cochran Mode … With Some Ghandi for kicks | International Veterans Leadership Committee
THE CASE:
They call it “Veterans Equal Access.”
We call it legislative malpractice.
For more than a decade, Congress has dangled the same amendment like a VA prescription bottle with no pills inside.
Each time, it’s sold as “progress.”
Each time, it’s stripped in conference behind closed doors.
And each time, the very veterans it’s meant to serve are sent home empty-handed—again.
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
Congress isn’t insane.
They’re strategic.
And what they’re doing is fraud by repetition.
🔍 EXHIBIT A: The Amendment That Never Was
Since at least 2014, versions of this so-called "Veterans Equal Access" amendment have passed one chamber, only to be silently gutted in the final appropriations process. The language always looks the same:
“VA doctors may recommend cannabis in states where it is legal.”
But the outcome is always the same: dead on arrival in conference.
No implementation.
No protection.
No change.
Instead, lawmakers reintroduce it next year, slap a bow on it, and call it progress. Meanwhile…
💊 Pharma contracts expand.
🧾 VA budgets balloon.
☠️ Veterans die by suicide—still barred from legal access.
📁 EXHIBIT B: Master File #1361 – Still Ignored
Buried in the federal record is Master File #1361, the Compassionate IND case file for medical cannabis.
This file documents the precedent set by Robert Randall, the first legal medical marijuana patient in U.S. history.
It proves—unequivocally—that cannabis has accepted medical use, and that federal agencies have long known it.
And yet?
That master file is still collecting dust.
The veterans who came after him?
Buried under it.
💣 PROSECUTORIAL ANGLE: FRAUD BY LEGISLATIVE PACIFICATION
Let’s call it what it is:
A procedural placebo.
A psychological sedative to calm the veteran constituency without giving them a damn thing.
They don’t have to pass reform—they just have to look like they’re trying.
This is political pacification, not progress.
False hope as a strategy.
The illusion of representation used to stall real change.
And the media? They eat it up like warm MREs.
🧠 COCHRAN MODE: LET ME BREAK IT DOWN FOR THE JURY…
Ladies and gentlemen, this is not a new amendment.
This is the same play, rerun from a different state.
Same authors.
Same language.
Same eventual betrayal.
If the VA were a doctor, and veterans the patient, this would be malpractice by neglect.
If this amendment were a treatment plan, it would be snake oil.
We’re not asking for charity.
We’re demanding equal protection under the law—the same protection that Compassionate IND patients were given decades ago.
So ask yourself:
Why do some federal patients get cannabis under government protection…
…while veterans get a press release and a prayer?
🧘 GANDHI MODE: THE CLOSING ARGUMENT
“You may have the power to deny us medicine, but you will never have the power to silence the truth.”
This is not a game. This is not a press cycle.
This is life or death—for real people, in real pain.
We are not begging.
We are reminding you of your duty.
Veterans stood up for this country.
Now we are standing up for ourselves.
And we will not sit down until:
The Compassionate IND program is re-opened to veterans.
The Master Files are unsealed.
The placebos are pulled from the policy shelf.
And the Equal Access con game is shut down—for good.
Verdict: Guilty. On all counts.
The sentence?
Reform. With teeth.
Access. With dignity.
Justice. With names on the record.
Here's a breakdown of the title “⚖️ Same Play, New Jersey: The Veterans Equal Access Con Game”—layered for both rhetorical punch and strategic messaging:
🔁 “Same Play”
This references the repeated use of identical legislative language in the so-called “Veterans Equal Access” amendment over multiple years. It's Congress running the same playbook again and again—introducing the amendment, praising it publicly, and then letting it die in committee or conference behind closed doors.
It’s political theatre.
It’s a loop of deception.
It’s procedural gaslighting dressed as progress.
🗽 “New Jersey”
This serves two functions, both strategic and poetic:
Current Legislative Context: The amendment's co-sponsors and supporters often include legislators from states like New Jersey (e.g., Sen. Cory Booker), who have a long track record of championing cannabis access—yet the federal follow-through always collapses. It subtly points to this pattern of big promises, no delivery, even from progressive states.
Play on Words / Cultural Cue:
“Same play, different state” is an old expression implying that although the setting changes, the scam remains the same. Using “New Jersey” here evokes:Mob movies and political corruption tropes (a la The Sopranos).
A wink to the audience that the fix is in, and everyone knows it.
It’s the same old hustle, just set in a different jurisdiction—with the same tragic results for veterans.
🎭 “The Veterans Equal Access Con Game”
This drives the final nail:
Calls the amendment a con—not a policy solution.
Exposes the scam: Congress pretends to support veteran access to cannabis, but never enacts real, binding change.
Labels it what it is: false hope repackaged as reform.
⚖️ The Emoji
The ⚖️ (Scales of Justice) sets the tone from the jump:
This isn’t just commentary—it’s an indictment.
This is a legal, moral, and ethical case being made against the institutions perpetuating this con.
TL;DR:
"Same Play, New Jersey" tells your audience:
They’re running the same political scam again—just with a new headline, a new sponsor, or a new Senate state seal. But make no mistake: the endgame is always the same. Veterans get strung along. The amendment dies. And the cycle repeats. It’s not access. It’s a con.
