Lakewood teen who inspired “Jack’s Law” remembered

Jack Splitt is not a household name. Maybe it ought to be.

Splitt, 15, died Wednesday night of complications from his Cerebral Palsy.

He is the namesake of “Jack’s Law,” a bill that allows kids in need to take forms of medical marijuana on school grounds.

Jack’s mother Stacey Linn believes the drug both relieved pain and helped her son thrive.

“It is not some crazy, evil reefer madness drug,” Linn said. “Jack wants people to know that. He will stand forever in these shoes and carry that message.”

Linn along with Jennie Stormes who’s son Jackson goes to Sand Creek High School worked tirelessly convincing lawmakers to take a chance.

“Jack was turned into a zombie by pharmaceutical medicine,” Linn said. “He could hardly function.”

The bill passed unanimously in the state senate and was signed by Gov. Hickenlooper back in June.

“We offer our deepest regrets and sympathies, our prayers for their family and thank them for stepping forward,” state Sen. Kent Lambert said. “Certainly that’s a pioneering effort.”

Linn will forever remember that kind, warm, smile.

“After he started with medical marijuana, he was back to himself,” she said. “He got to be Jack for the final days of his life.