Facing strong criticism from black leaders, Cynthia Nixon on Thursday said she would no longer refer to “reparations” in her push to legalize marijuana.

“I’m not going to use that word anymore,” Nixon told The Post during a subway campaign stop in Brooklyn.

While backtracking on using the term, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate said she will continue to emphasize that people of color who’ve been unjustly punished by anti-drug laws should benefit from the government’s sanctioning of weed.

“Marijuana legalization is coming. We have to make sure that people like John Boehner [former House Speaker] aren’t the only ones profiting,” Nixon said.

“We have to make sure that the communities that have been most devastated by the war on drugs are prioritized for small business loans and other kinds of support. Obviously it would in no way make up for Jim Crow or slavery or hundreds of years of that. But part of the marijuana equity movement is beginning to repair some of the devastation.”

Boehner announced last month that his thinking had changed on legalizing marijuana and he was joining the advisory board of Acreage Holdings, which owns cannabis licenses and assets in 30 states.

Nixon caused a stir when she told Forbes.com that since young minorities are disproportionately punished by marijuana arrests, black and Latino communities should get first priority to sell legal weed.

“We [must] prioritize them in terms of licenses. It’s a form of reparations,” she told Forbes.

But New York NAACP president Hazel Dukes and National Action Network head Al Sharpton objected to comparing the legalization of marijuana and having minority run pot shops in predominately black neighborhoods to reparations, a loaded term that invokes compensation for slavery.

“We don’t need any pot shops in our communities. Reparation for us is education, employment, health care, not pot shops,” Dukes said.