Did the marijuana hero, Jack Herer die after he collapsed backstage on Saturday?”
Friday September 18, 2009, 4:31 PM A well-known marijuana activist and author was in critical condition today at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center six days after speaking at the Hempstalk festival at Kelley Point Park. Jack Herer, 70, the author of “The Emperor Wears No Clothes,” suffered a heart attack last Saturday as he stepped down from the stage at Portland’s annual celebration of marijuana. Herer, of Lower Lake, Calif., is nationally known in the movement to reform drug laws to remove restrictions on growing hemp, a cousin of marijuana that does not have a psychotropic effect and has been used for cloth, paper, food and fuel for thousands of years.
(PORTLAND, Ore.) – The most well known person in the world on the subject of marijuana, author Jack Herer, had a heart attack Saturday, after a fiery speech at the Portland Hempstalk Event at Kelly Point Park. Ironically, Jack told our Doctor Phil Leveque, an old friend of his in the fight to legitimize and legalize marijuana, that he was feeling better Saturday than he had, “In the ten years.” Event staff came together quickly and called in the paramedic crew that treated Jack in the area backstage where he fell ill. Madeline Martinez, Executive Director of Oregon NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, says Jack didn’t look like he felt well after the well received speech, and she told him he should get some water. Shortly after that he apparently collapsed where he was sitting, and the emergency crews were called in. Bands kept playing and the medical personnel spent a considerable amount of time stabilizing Jack, before loading him in an ambulance and tra
Contrary to previous reports, Jack Herer is still alive. The Oregonian is reporting the activist is in critical condition at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in Portland Oregonian. In addition, celebstoner has retracted their announcement of Herer’s death. In light of these facts it is with pleasure the Portland Progressive Examiner retracts an earlier report of Herer’s death. Jack Herer, much beloved Emperor of Hemp and marijuana hero collapsed backstage on Saturday, September 15, at “Hempstalk 2009” in Portland, Oregon. Herer had just given a fiery speech to the crowd on the future of hemp when he suffered a heart attack and a significant loss of oxygen.
