http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robbie-gennet/on-role-models-and-their_b_164387.html

"Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country."
-Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President

"Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere."
--George Washington, U.S. President

"The war on drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our nation's marijuana laws."
--Barack Obama, January 2004

"The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world."
--Carl Sagan, renown scientist, astronomer, astrochemist, author and TV host

"That is not a drug. It's a leaf."
--Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California

and my personal favourite

"If the words 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on."
--Terence McKenna

http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=comic&id=11740&page=1

apparently Obama gets very Dude when the infocalypse hits.

In anticipation of tomorrow's presidential inaugural, Dan Goldman extrapolates a psychedelic, science-fictional scenario from a catchy campaign slogan and the millenial apocalyptic notions of pre-columbian astronomers.