This was a very sad day for everybody.  The grandfather of the legalization movement Jack Herer was in the hospital after he had a heart attack.  Jack has been such an inspiration for so many others, over the last few decades the movement has been working on legalization.

Here is the article from Oregon Live;

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2009/10/marijuana_activist_showing_sig.html