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How to Do the Pot292. Sticky Fingers Brownies: Women, Weed, and the Birth of Medical Cannabis, part 1Before weed was legal in any U.S. state, it was medicine passed hand-to-hand—often in the form of a brownie. In part one of our Webby-nominated series Before Legal Weed, host Ellen Scanlon brings you the untold story of how San Francisco’s gay community turned to cannabis during the darkest days of the AIDS crisis—and how a woman-run cannabis operation called Sticky Fingers Brownies quietly became a lifeline.
You’ll meet Meridy Volz, a mother delivering pot brownies on roller skates through the Castro in the 1980s, and her daughter, author Alia Volz, who grew up...
2025-06-1034 minHow to Do the Pot246. AIDS & Cannabis: How Love and Perseverance Paved the Way for LegalizationIn this powerful kickoff to our Pride series, join us as we honor the resilience and love of San Francisco’s gay community during the 1980s AIDS crisis. Meet Meridy Volz, the woman behind Sticky Fingers Brownies, and her daughter Alia Volz, who witnessed the transformative power of compassion and community from a young age. Discover how delivering cannabis brownies to AIDS patients provided relief and hope, and learn about the pivotal role this played in sparking a national legalization movement for medical cannabis. Celebrate Pride with us and hear these remarkable stories of courage, advocacy, and the enduring fi...
2024-06-1838 min
Snap JudgmentBuds - Snap ClassicWeed brownies, firefighting, and friendship. Amazing stories by friends, about the friend you did not expect.
STORIES
Weed Brownies
At school, Alia Volz was a weird kid without a lot of friends. She had a secret... after school, she’d go home and help her mom make and sell weed brownies all over San Francisco. But one day, Alia discovered something about her mom’s business that turned her secret into a burden that was far more painful than she could have imagined.
Thank you, Alia, for sharing your story with Snap...
2023-07-1349 min
Snap JudgmentThe 2022 Look Back SpecialA prison librarian thought he just had to keep track of books until he started reading between the lines. And a young girl in San Francisco discovers something about her mother that turns a secret she's keeping into a burden.
It’s time to Look Back before we move forward. Happy Holidays to all you Snappas! We are so grateful for you.
STORIES
Secrets in the Stacks
When Avi Steinberg became a prison librarian, he thought his job would be to keep track of the books. Then he started reading between th...
2022-12-2344 min
Litquake's Lit CastStraight, No Chaser: Writers at the Bar: Lit Cast Live Episode 139Famed bohemian saloon Vesuvio Café welcomes Litquake for an edgy and hilarious North Beach reading celebrating 2020 authors (who didn't get to have any damn fun). Featuring Vanessa Hua, A.H. Kim, Roberto Lovato, Caitlin Myer, and Maggie Tokuda-Hall. Hosted by Alia Volz. A rare opportunity to glimpse authors performing new work in their natural habitat. Held outdoors in Kerouac Alley.
2022-02-231h 28
The Perks Of Being A Book Lover PodcastSeason 5 Ep. 117 In The Weed(s) with Memoir and History with Guest Alia VolzOur guest this week, Alia Volz, wrote a book titled Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and The Stoning of San Francisco about her experience growing up in San Francisco in the late 1970s and 80s. Alia’s parents were the owners of Sticky Fingers Brownies which made pot brownies that were known all over the city. While these brownies were the source of relaxation and fun for many people, when HIV and AIDS hit San Francisco, Sticky Fingers became a lifeline for many gay men who were devastated by the disease because the pot brownies helped them with pain an...
2021-12-151h 01
The Canna Mom ShowJoyce’s Canna StoryToday’s show is a little different because our scheduled guest was in Jamaica without good Wi-Fi! So, Joyce and Dave took the opportunity to talk about The Canna Mom Show winning best podcast of the year at the Women In Cannabis Expo, recommend a few books and Joyce shares her own canna story. She talks about why it is so important for women, moms and caregivers, to join the cannabis industry because cannabis is a female caregiver and the industry should be built in her image and the industry needs you!We also want to th...
2021-10-1436 min
The Weed WitchAll In The Family: Growing Up in a Weed Brownie Family w/Author Alia Volz of "Home Baked"This is Pipe Dreams by The Weed Witch, a newsletter, podcast, idea sampler platter and content wildcard featuring stream-of-consciousness tales and divine wisdom from free-thinking societal outliers, a.k.a. the weed witches.
Today's guest is Alia Volz, author of Home Baked, My Mom, Marijuana, and The Stoning of San Francisco—a journalistic memoir that came out last year that is a riveting tale worthy of becoming National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. Alia talks about what it was like growing up in a weed family during the Reagan administration, the racist undertones of the War on Drugs, how the "St...
2021-10-1425 min
The Passionistas Project PodcastFrom Pot Brownies to Black Lives Matter with Art Activist Meridy VolzMeridy Volz is an internationally acclaimed artist who’s known for her paintings of figures and use of shockingly innovative electric color to create a mood. In 2020, Meridy’s daughter Alia published the book “Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco,” which chronicled Meridy’s life running Sticky Fingers Brownies, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco.
Learn more about Meridy.
Get a copy Alia Volz's book Home Baked.
Learn more about The Passionistas Project.
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2021-06-0936 min
Dazed And InfusedHome Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San FranciscoHome Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco with author Alia Volz today on Dazed And Infused only on Cannabis Radio. Alia is the author of the new memoir Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), winner of the Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction from the California Independent Bookseller Alliance, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography. She’s a homegrown San Franciscan. Her work has been published in The Best American Essays, The New York Times, Bon Appetit, Salon, and The Best Women’s Trav...
2021-04-2340 min
HempresentHome Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San FranciscoHome Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco with Author Alia Volz today on Hempresent only on Cannabis Radio. A blazingly funny, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco—for fans of Armistead Maupin and Patricia Lockwood. During the '70s in San Francisco, Alia's mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies, delivering upwards of 10,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in th...
2021-04-1929 min
Stoner Chicks Podcast04. Women and Weed BrowniesCareful dude, these brownies have magic in 'em. This week on Weed in the News, Kayla covers a High Herstory interview with Alia Volz, the author of Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco. Alia's mom was an OG #cannamom who medicated the Bay Area with thousands of pot brownies in the '70s and '80s. Eat it, baby!
In Stoner Chicks-related news, Phoebe had her collages published in the Home Grown Zine (@homegrownzine), Grace has been strumming away on her ukulele, Stephani has been getting high as a kite and flying h...
2021-04-1630 min
Storied: San FranciscoAuthor Alia Volz, Part 2In this podcast, Alia picks up where she left off in Part 1, sharing stories of joining her mom on pot-brownie runs in The City in the late-'70s. She pivots from there to just a few years later, when Alia witnessed the devastation of AIDS first-hand. She also speaks of communities coming together around the epidemic to provide support for those who needed it. We fast-forward to around 2000, when Alia began traveling in Europe for many years. While walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain, she began writing. She started a writing program but left that to spend some t...
2021-04-1527 min
Storied: San FranciscoAuthor Alia Volz, Part 1It isn't every episode that we get to learn more about the main character in a book. First of all, if you haven't already read Home Baked, Alia Volz's autobiography about her mom, her dad, and the pot brownie business they had in San Francisco in the 1970s, please do. In this podcast, Alia, who was born and raised amid that booming business four decades ago, dives deeper into her parents' stories, both individually and as a couple. As she does in her book, she sets the stage for her eventual arrival, back when her parents...
2021-04-1326 min
Total SFA total San Francisco book club! w/ "Home Baked" author Alia VolzTotal SF hosts Peter Hartlaub and Heather Knight introduce the Total SF Book Club, interviewing "Home Baked" author Alia Volz. The San Francisco memoir, featuring Volz growing up around her cannabis brownie-dealing parents, is the first book in the new club in partnership with the San Francisco Public Library and Green Apple Books. Volz joins Hartlaub and Knight for a conversation across the street from the Mission District warehouse where her parents used to bake hundreds of brownies a day for recreational and later medical drug use.Produced by Peter Hartlaub. Music is "The Tide Will Rise"...
2021-03-2636 min
California FoodwaysOne Woman's Subversive Response to the AIDS CrisisThe coronavirus brings back memories of another public health crisis, where the federal government was slow to respond and communities had to take care of each other: the AIDS epidemic. One woman who became an unexpected caregiver is Meridy Volz. Starting in the 1970s, she ran a bakery called Sticky Fingers Brownies. "The business changed," Meridy says. "It went from something fun and lightweight to something that was a lifeline." This is her story, told by her daughter Alia Volz whose memoir, Homebaked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco, came out in April.
2020-11-2428 minCalifornia FoodwaysSeason 3 Episode 3 Home Baked: One Woman's Subversive Response to the AIDS CrisisThe coronavirus brings back memories of another public health crisis, where the federal government was slow to respond and communities had to take care of each other: the AIDS epidemic. One woman who became an unexpected caregiver is Meridy Volz. Starting in the 1970s, she ran a bakery called Sticky Fingers Brownies. "The business changed," Meridy says. "It went from something fun and lightweight to something that was a lifeline." This is her story, told by her daughter Alia Volz whose memoir, Homebaked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco, came out in April.
2020-11-2428 min
Queer The Table"Good Outlaws"Nico is joined by Alia Volz to talk about her book "Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco," and how AIDS activists paid the way for marijuana legalization in this country. Find a Black-owned bookstore near you: https://aalbc.com/bookstores/bookstore-map.phpHeritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network, support Queer The Table by becoming a member! Queer The Table is Powered by Simplecast. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do...
2020-08-1230 min
Midlife MixtapeEp 80 “Home-Baked” Author Alia Volz
“A family of raconteurs”: Alia Volz on her new memoir “Home-Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco”, her parents’ pioneering cannabis business, industry evolution from dealing to healing, and maturing right along with our parents.
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2020-08-0442 min
Midlife MixtapeEp 80 “Home-Baked” Author Alia Volz“A family of raconteurs”: Alia Volz on her new memoir “Home-Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco”, her parents’ pioneering cannabis business, industry evolution from dealing to healing, and maturing right along with our parents.
The post Ep 80 “Home-Baked” Author Alia Volz appeared first on Midlife Mixtape .
2020-08-0400 min
Thoughts from a Page PodcastBridgett Davis - THE WORLD ACCORDING TO FANNIE DAVISBridgett discusses her decision to honor her mother with a memoir, growing up in Detroit and participating in her mother’s business, writing the screenplay for The World According to Fannie Davis for Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B, and some great reading recommendations. The World According to Fannie Davis can be purchased at Murder by the Book. Bridgett’s 4 recommended reads are: The Yellow House by Sarah Broom Black is the Body by Emily Bernard Looking for Lorraine by Imani Perry Home Baked by Alia Volz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone...
2020-07-2430 min
California Sun PodcastAlia Volz's homebaked journeyAlia Volz reminisces about growing up in the family business in the 1970s and '80s, where her mom baked and sold 10,000 "magic" brownies per month in San Francisco. It was a time when growing a single marijuana plant was a felony offense. The business that started selling to hippie craftspeople in Aquatic Park became a cultural icon.
2020-07-2326 min
Different Leaf: the PodcastMy Mom Was the Brownie Lady with Alia VolzThis week's guest Alia Volz is the author of the new book "Home Baked - My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco." Alia’s mother Meridy was known to countless people around the Bay City during the 1970’s as “the Brownie Lady.” Meridy eventually ran the largest underground pot brownie business of the time. Sticky Fingers Brownies started out as a great way to make money... and ended up being an essential medical supply for gay men in San Francisco during the AIDS epidemic.An account of dozens of people’s memories, Volz’s book is a valuabl...
2020-06-2631 min
Weed + GrubSweet Summer Solstice & Magical Brownies with Alia VolzAlia Volz (Home Baked). Mike and Mary Jane get loose with Alia about her inspiring book Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco. Alia's book is a rich history of San Francisco in the '70s and '80s, and tells the story of how her parents baked some 10,000 illegal pot brownies per month in their home, delivering them throughout San Francisco—often from Alia's baby stroller.
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2020-06-2251 min
Good GriefHome BakedAlia Volz' mother sold marijuana baked goods in a time when that was illegal. At first, it was a rebellious way to make a living. But then the AIDS epidemic made it so much more; a struggle for the right of patients to use every tool available to feel better. Growing up in the midst of the political battle over marijuana, Alia also learned the history of why it was illegal when alcohol was not, a history of racism and criminalization. How did her unusual childhood affect her perspective on her family, her city and the world? Join us to...
2020-06-1056 min
F***ing ShakespeareOfficial Podcast of #AWP20 LIVE with Bloomsday Literary—Day 3Fantastic advice from the authors, poets, & industry professionals at #AWP20. This is part one of a three-episode series featuring Bloomsday Literary’s partnership with #AWP20 to bring you all the literary goings-on from this year’s conference. Here’s Day Three!Richard Z. Santos 1:22Santos’ debut novel Trust Me came out on 3/31/20 from Arte Público Press. The main character is an “East Coast political hack” who moves from D.C. to Sante Fe and “stumbles into corruption and danger.” We talked multiple POVs, airport mottos (Sante Fe: Connecting You to the World!), and the similarities betw...
2020-05-271h 46
The Canna Mom ShowAmy Larson Explains Why Compliance Is The Sexiest Word in CannabisAmy Larson, VP of Marketing & PR at Simplifya, speaks with Joyce and Amie from her home in Colorado. Amy’s work in cannabis tourism was a good learning experience that helped her see the necessity of professionalism in the emerging cannabis industry. Amy is the first person Joyce ever heard claim that professional cannabis years are like dog years!During Amy’s tenure at an integrated marketing agency, she chose to invest her time in learning about the cannabis industry. She had an “ah ha” moment when she attended a panel of NFL players who spoke of the ineq...
2020-05-1444 min
All the Books!New Releases and More for April 21, 2020This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss If I Had Your Face, The Silence of Bones, Late To the Party, and more great books.This episode was sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service; Ritual; and Book Riot Insiders.Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here.Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these lin...
2020-04-2244 min
Snap JudgmentWeed BrowniesAt school, Alia Volz was a weird kid without a lot of friends. She had a secret... after school, she’d go home and help her mom make and sell weed brownies all over San Francisco. But one day, Alia discovered something about her mom’s business that turned her secret into a burden that was far more painful than she could have imagined.
Thank you, Alia, for sharing your story with Snap!
Produced by Shaina Shealy, original score by Doug Stuart
2020-04-2115 minSnap JudgmentBuds - full episodeWeed brownies, firefighting, and friendship. It’s a 4/20 Snap Special! Amazing stories by friends, about the friend you did not expect.
STORIES
Weed Brownies
At school, Alia Volz was a weird kid without a lot of friends. She had a secret... after school, she’d go home and help her mom make and sell weed brownies all over San Francisco. But one day, Alia discovered something about her mom’s business that turned her secret into a burden that was far more painful than she could have imagined.
Thank you, Alia, for sharing your story with Snap!
Produced by Shaina Shealy...
2020-04-2137 min
Experience: This Vivid Full Audiobook For Thriller Fans.Home Baked by Alia VolzPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/88153to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Home Baked
Author: Alia Volz
Narrator: Alia Volz
Format: mp3
Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
Release date: 04-20-20
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 81 ratings
Genres: Activists
Publisher's Summary:
During the '70s in San Francisco, Alia's mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies, delivering upwards of 10,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia's future father, and thereafter had a partner in business and life. Exhilarating, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartbreaking, Home Baked celebrates an...
2020-04-202h 07
Access Unmissable Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsHome Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco by Alia VolzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569035 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco Author: Alia Volz Narrator: Alia Volz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 7 minutes Release date: April 20, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY A blazingly funny, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco—for fans of Armistead Maupin and Patricia Lockwood During th...
2020-04-2003 min
The Drum: A Literary Magazine For Your EarsIssue 77. Spring 2020 : Mini-cast Episode 3Liven up your couch-to-kitchen commute with tales of mug shots, animal companions, unexpected heirlooms and facing the worst-case scenario with Emily Dickinson. Tune in to meet memoirist Alia Volz and poet Lesley Wheeler on Episode 3 of Safe & Sound.
2020-04-1006 min
The Passionistas Project PodcastBONUS: Meridy Volz on advice to an aspiring artistMeridy Volz on advice to an aspiring artist.
More from Meridy:
Meridy Volz on her favorite memories of her Sticky Fingers Brownies days.
Meridy Volz on her Warrior and Angel Heart series.
Meridy Volz on expanding her juvenile hall program.
Meridy Volz on the most important part of being an artist.
Meridy Volz on where people can buy her art.
Meridy Volz on the pop culture icon she would be for one day.
Learn more about Meridy.
Get a copy Alia Volz's book Home Baked.
2018-03-2105 min
The Passionistas Project PodcastBONUS: Meridy Volz on the pop culture icon she would be for one dayMeridy Volz on the pop culture icon she would be for one day.
More from Meridy:
Meridy Volz on her favorite memories of her Sticky Fingers Brownies days.
Meridy Volz on her Warrior and Angel Heart series.
Meridy Volz on expanding her juvenile hall program.
Meridy Volz on advice to an aspiring artist.
Meridy Volz on the most important part of being an artist.
Meridy Volz on where people can buy her art.
Learn more about Meridy.
Get a copy Alia Volz's book Home B...
2018-03-2102 min
The Passionistas Project PodcastBONUS: Meridy Volz on the most important part of being an artistMeridy Volz on the most important part of being an artist.
More from Meridy:
Meridy Volz on her favorite memories of her Sticky Fingers Brownies days.
Meridy Volz on her Warrior and Angel Heart series.
Meridy Volz on expanding her juvenile hall program.
Meridy Volz on advice to an aspiring artist.
Meridy Volz on where people can buy her art.
Meridy Volz on the pop culture icon she would be for one day.
Learn more about Meridy.
Get a copy Alia Volz's book Home Baked.
2018-03-2104 min
The Passionistas Project PodcastBONUS: Meridy Volz on her favorite memories of her Sticky Fingers Brownies daysMeridy Volz on her favorite memories of her Sticky Fingers Brownies days.
More from Meridy:
Meridy Volz on her Warrior and Angel Heart series.
Meridy Volz on expanding her juvenile hall program.
Meridy Volz on advice to an aspiring artist.
Meridy Volz on the most important part of being an artist.
Meridy Volz on where people can buy her art.
Meridy Volz on the pop culture icon she would be for one day.
Learn more about Meridy.
Get a copy Alia Volz's book Home Baked.
2018-03-2102 min
The Passionistas Project PodcastBONUS: Meridy Volz on expanding her juvenile hall programMeridy Volz on expanding her juvenile hall program.
More from Meridy:
Meridy Volz on her favorite memories of her Sticky Fingers Brownies days.
Meridy Volz on her Warrior and Angel Heart series.
Meridy Volz on advice to an aspiring artist.
Meridy Volz on the most important part of being an artist.
Meridy Volz on where people can buy her art.
Meridy Volz on the pop culture icon she would be for one day.
Learn more about Meridy.
Get a copy Alia Volz's book Home Baked.
2018-03-2104 min
The Passionistas Project PodcastBONUS: Meridy Volz on her Warrior and Angel Heart seriesMeridy Volz on her Warrior and Angel Heart series.
More from Meridy:
Meridy Volz on her favorite memories of her Sticky Fingers Brownies days.
Meridy Volz on expanding her juvenile hall program.
Meridy Volz on advice to an aspiring artist.
Meridy Volz on the most important part of being an artist.
Meridy Volz on where people can buy her art.
Meridy Volz on the pop culture icon she would be for one day.
Learn more about Meridy.
Get a copy Alia Volz's book Home Baked.
2018-03-2109 min
The Passionistas Project PodcastBONUS: Meridy Volz on where people can buy her artMeridy Volz on where people can buy her art.
More from Meridy:
Meridy Volz on her favorite memories of her Sticky Fingers Brownies days.
Meridy Volz on her Warrior and Angel Heart series.
Meridy Volz on expanding her juvenile hall program.
Meridy Volz on advice to an aspiring artist.
Meridy Volz on the most important part of being an artist.
Meridy Volz on the pop culture icon she would be for one day.
Learn more about Meridy.
Get a copy Alia Volz's book Home Baked.
2018-03-2102 minLitquake's Lit CastBest American Essays: Litquake's Lit Cast Episode 84Since 1986, Houghton Mifflin's The Best American Essays has delivered an annual treasure trove of fine writing and thought-provoking essays selected from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. This past October, Litquake assembled a stellar gathering of some of California's leading contemporary essayists, and contributors to the anthology. With readings from Kendra Atleework, Richard M. Lange, Angela Morales, Karen Palmer, Jose Antonio Vargas, and Alia Volz. Recorded live as part of the Litquake festival, at the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco. https://www.facebook.com/litquake https://twitter.com/Litquake
2017-11-161h 12
a++[Criminal] Episode 47: Brownie LadyShortly after Meridy Volz moved from Milwaukee to San Francisco, she received a phone call from a friend asking her to take over a small bakery business. Meridy agreed to run the bakery, but she only wanted to sell one thing: pot brownies. Her brownies were a massive success, and soon she was making enough money to support three families. Meridy tells her story alongside her daughter, Alia Volz, who describes what it's like when San Francisco's "original brownie lady" is your mom. Visit our website: www.thisiscriminal.com to see Meridy's final brownie bag & recipe. Criminal is a proud memb...
2016-07-1500 min
CriminalBrownie LadyShortly after Meridy Volz moved from Milwaukee to San Francisco, she received a phone call from a friend asking her to take over a small bakery business. Meridy agreed to run the bakery, but she only wanted to sell one thing: pot brownies. Her brownies were a massive success, and soon she was making enough money to support three families. Meridy tells her story alongside her daughter, Alia Volz, who describes what it's like when San Francisco's "original brownie lady" is your mom.Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Ac...
2016-07-1523 min
CriminalShowEpisode 47: Brownie LadyShortly after Meridy Volz moved from Milwaukee to San Francisco, she received a phone call from a friend asking her to take over a small bakery business. Meridy agreed to run the bakery, but she only wanted to sell one thing: pot brownies. Her brownies were a massive success, and soon she was making enough money to support three families. Meridy tells her story alongside her daughter, Alia Volz, who describes what it's like when "the original brownie lady" is your mom.
Criminal is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. To see Meridy's final brownie bag & recipe, visit: http...
2016-07-1521 min