DA to ax a slew of pot cases

Thousands of pot cases in Brooklyn have gone up in smoke.

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez agreed to vacate 56 marijuana convictions and expunge over 3,000 arrest warrants on minor marijuana charges in hope of righting the wrongs of the stop-and-frisk era of policing.

“The majority of these warrants were issued to Black and Latino New Yorkers,” Gonzalez said Friday at an event dubbed “Begin Again.”

“I believe we must do what we can to repair the harms done to the individuals and the communities that were targeted in well-meaning but misguided efforts of the past.”

The 3,146 arrest warrants — most of which were for simple marijuana possession — were vacated without the alleged pot-possessors’ presence in court. Brooklyn Criminal Court Justice Abena Darkeh accepted Gonzalez’s motion to toss the warrants.

The 56 convictions required that the person be present — not in a courtroom, but at Lenox Road Baptist Church in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens.

During a brief proceeding, public defenders helped the 56 Brooklynites file motions to vacate their convictions for misdemeanor pot offenses, most of which also involved possession of marijuana.

Warrants for 138 other offenses not involving weed — such as littering — were also vacated.

“Right now I feel like I can see,” said Jean Moyen, 51, who had a misdemeanor conviction for smoking weed expunged.

He was one of the many people who left the church with a big smile, happily holding paperwork from the feel-good proceeding, grateful to have the charges erased from their records.