No, the founders of our nation were not pot and hashish smokers.
It cracks me up every time one of them asserts this. They think that because the founders grew *Rope* that they also smoked it?
But were they pot smokers alone, without the hashish?
Whatever your answer, how can you prove it? They grew it. Do you think they didn't know that it could also get them high? They grew, dried and smoked tobacco. They could do the same with hemp. They could even mix it with their tobacco to get an appropriate, controlled high, as had been done for thousands of years by mixing weed with other plants. Did they not know about this, or that weed was also used medicinally (and still is, BTW)? Why not?