Bragg weed-whack vow to illicit shops

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg warned hundreds of illegal pot joints Tuesday that he’s ready to snuff them out with eviction notices.

The typically soft-on-crime lawman said at a press conference that his office has sent more than 400 letters to rogue businesses in the borough, saying he has the power to launch evictions under civil law.

“This letter is to inform you that the Manhattan’s District Attorney’s Office is prepared to use our civil authority . . . to require owners and landlords to commence eviction proceedings of commercial tenants who are engaged in illegal trade or business, and to take over such eviction proceedings if necessary,” the missive warned.

Bragg said, “It is time for the operation of unlicensed cannabis dispensaries to end. They’ve been put on notice.”

Mayor Adams — who was at the event on the Upper West Side, where city officials said such illegal businesses have proliferated — added, “You can’t just open a shop and sell marijuana. There are rules. These products are not tested. In some cases, they could be laced with fentanyl. These are dangerous products.”

Asked if other city DAs would be following suit, Adams only said Big Apple officials will share information about Manhattan’s program.

Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine said the unlicensed shops are making so much money that they can afford whatever fines and other monetary damages are slapped against them.

This makes them “magnets for robberies,” Levine added.

The move to boot illegal shops comes less than a month after Sheriff Anthony Miranda testified at a City Council hearing that 1,400 businesses are selling pot illegally in the city.

In mid-January, there was just one legal weed shop open in the city, with a second on the way days later. Three hundred licenses for the shops have been distributed so far.

City Councilwoman Gale Brewer, whose district includes the Upper West Side, said she’s seen kids who appear at least as young as 12 buying illicit pot, and that illegal businesses are moving “within 500 feet of . . . schools.”

Chris Alexander, executive director of the city’s Office of Cannabis Management, which oversees the Big Apple’s ganja program, said the plan was to particularly help minorities to make money through cannabis licenses.

“This is not what was fought for,” he said, referring to the booming underground market.

They’ve been put on notice.

— Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on unlicensed pot sellers