Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley has not decided how she will vote on the November referendum on legalized recreational marijuana, but Wednesday, she pressed city officials to begin thinking about ways to equitably implement the measure, should it pass.

Pressley wants the council to hold a hearing to discuss strategies that would give historically disadvantaged people, including nonwhites, women, and low-income residents, priority in marijuana licensing. As she puts it, these are the same people who were disproportionately hurt by punitive jail sentences that criminalized the drug, so these people should be the first to make money from its legalization.

“We are finally addressing, culturally, socially, and through policy reform, the impacts of the ‘War on Drugs’,” Pressley said at the meeting. “Righting these wrongs can happen through collective will and intentional legislation.”