Tracey and CJ talk with Linda Greene from Anacostia Organics. Linda is a powerhouse entrepreneur and brings an incredible dynamic to this week's episode of Street StartUps. Linda Mercado Greene is the Co-Founder, Board Chair, and CEO/Owner of Anacostia Organics, a minority woman-owned medical cannabis dispensary in the District of Columbia and the first to open in DC to serve the most undercapitalized demographic population in the city. She has gained national status in this new industry as Chair of the DC Medical Cannabis Trade Association. Linda is on the Executive Team as Strategic Advisor of the Cannabis Trade Federation (CTF), and the Chair of the CTF Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force comprised of the top civil rights leaders and advocates in the US. CTF is one of the largest cannabis national coalitions of industry related businesses. Linda has always utilized her personal political relationships to forward the progress of diversity and inclusion legislation, decriminalization, policy development, banking, and record expungements in cannabis. She is the Host of a daily podcast, “Cannabis Conversations Podcast with Linda Mercado Greene”, on DCRadio.gov, 96.3HD4, and SoundCloud, which is the only DC government funded cannabis broadcasting. Linda is crisscrossing the country for speaking engagements and media interviews relative to the burgeoning cannabis industry to include the MJBiz Conference in Las Vegas, Women Grow Annual Summit in Washington, DC, and the Concordia Annual Summit in New York City.