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THE NYPD MAY soon be more chill about people smoking pot.

Mayor de Blasio, facing increasing pressure over the racial gap in marijuana arrests, pledged an overhaul to reduce arrests Tuesday — as the Manhattan district attorney announced he would stop prosecuting many pot cases.

Hizzoner and the NYPD have taken a torrent of criticism over pot arrests targeting blacks and Latinos — most recently from the Rev. Al Sharpton and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, who held a City Hall press conference to blast the department Tuesday.

In a speech to progressive groups in Washington, D.C., de Blasio said the NYPD would “overhaul and reform” its marijuana policies in the next 30 days, but did not provide details.

The NYPD currently arrests people they find smoking marijuana in public — and 86% of them are black or Latino.

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. announced that starting on Aug. 1, he will decline to prosecute marijuana possession and smoking cases. The change is expected to cut pot prosecutions in Manhattan from 5,000 a year to 200, a 96% drop.

The DA’s office said it would consider recommendations from the city for “limited” exceptions to the policy.

Vance found that punishments imposed after pot possession cases go to court are almost nonexistent — yet the arrests themselves hurt people’s chances of getting a job or staying in the country if they are immigrants.

“The dual mission of the Manhattan DA’s office is a safer New York and a more equal justice system,” he said. “The ongoing arrest and criminal prosecution of predominantly black and brown New Yorkers for smoking marijuana serves neither of these goals.” Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez already declines to prosecute many marijuana cases, and said Tuesday he will expand his policy in the coming weeks. Bronx DA Darcel Clark did not go as far, but urged cops to give summonses instead of arrests. Johnson, Sharpton and other Council members also called on cops to give summonses instead of arresting people caught smoking pot in public. They support making pot legal, but say the city should act before that happens. “Right now, the way we handle marijuana in New York City is irrational, insane and unfair,” Johnson said.