Home Baked: How Pot Brownies Brought Some Relief During The AIDS Epidemic

The coronavirus is on all of our minds, and for some, it brings back memories of another public health crisis, when the federal government was slow to respond and communities had to take care of each other: the AIDS epidemic. One woman became an unexpected caregiver. Starting in the 1970s, Meridy Volz 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."