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There's a lot of perspectives out there on this issue.
"Marijuana cultivation began in the United States around 1600 with the Jamestown settlers, who began growing the cannabis sativa or hemp plant for its unusually strong fiber that was used to make rope, sails, and clothing. Until after the Civil War, marijuana was a source of major revenue for the United States. During the 19th century marijuana plantations flourished in Mississippi, Georgia, California, South Carolina, Nebraska, New York, and Kentucky. Also during this period, smoking hashish, a stronger preparation of marijuana derived from the dried resin of the plant, was popular throughout France and to a lesser degree in the US."
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/buyers/socialhistory.html
Either way, we know they at least grew tobacco.
They grew hemp, which this quote erroneously identifies as "marijuana". The two are both Cannabis sativa sativa, like Dachshunds and Greyhounds are both Canis lupus familiaris. But (again like the dogs) the plants are bred in vastly different ways, to create strikingly different physical configurations, and for completely different purposes.
Hemp is the best natural fiber known, and a number of the Founding Fathers grew it for that reason. But there is no point smoking it unless one wants the granddaddy of all headaches and no buzz.
Modern smokeable "hemp" is actually cannabis grown as "marijuana" (shorter plants with abundant smokeable flowers) but with a higher than usual CBDa content and very low THCa content of under 0.3%.
There's no reliable evidence that the Founders sexed the plants (to increase cannabinoid-containing resin, discarding males prevents pollination and causes females to overproduce resin), grew them for anything other than fiber, or smoked them.