Nixon added that pot was a "racial justice issue" because of the amount of African-Americans are jailed on marijuana possession charges.
The Forbes report highlighted data obtained from the NYPD that reported, "black and brown people were nearly 10 times more likely to be arrested for pot possession last year, despite that white people are just as likely to use marijuana."
"People of color made up 86% of all marijuana arrests in 2017," the Forbes report added.
"The use of marijuana has been effectively legal for white people for a really long time," Nixon explained. “It’s time that we legalize it for everybody else."