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Tag: Anacostia Organics

**FILE** The ribbon-cutting ceremony for Linda Greene’s D.C. marijuana dispensary, Anacostia Organics, brought out city officials including Mayor Muriel Bowser and Ward 8 D.C Council member Trayon White. (Courtesy photo)
Posted inLifestyle

Calming Community Amid COVID-19, Cannabis Entrepreneur Sees Spike in Sales

by WI Guest Author April 22, 2020December 21, 2021

Linda Greene’s cannabis business rests two blocks from her house in the District and across the street from the home of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. That was intentional.

Linda Mercado Greene owns Anacostia Organics in Southeast. (Courtesy of Anacostia Organics)
Posted inLocal Business

Minority Women’s Business Creation Tops Everyone Else: Report

by James Wright Jr. October 2, 2019December 21, 2021
**FILE** Linda Greene (Robert Roberts/The Washington Informer)
Posted inLocal Business

Anacostia Emerges as Jobs Oasis

by James Wright Jr. March 27, 2019October 31, 2020
Linda Mercado Greene celebrates the opening of the first medical marijuana dispensary east of the Anacostia river on Jan. 24. Anacostia Organics is the first cannabis business to become a Department of Small and Local Business Development (DSLBD) Certified Business Enterprise (CBE) in the District of Columbia. (Robert Roberts/The Washington Informer)
Posted inCommunity

Ex-Barry Staffer Opens Medical Marijuana Dispensary

by James Wright Jr. January 30, 2019October 31, 2020

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