Feb. 15, 2024, I drove up to The College of DuPage to give a presentation, and while in the area, I picked up from River Bluff Roselle review products from a newly launched craft brand, Fully Baked. We reviewed and published the first product, Salted Caramel Chocolates, four days later, and Fully Baked announced it was halting production on all products the following day. Nearly six months later, the Fully Baked brand is back.

The Fully Baked brand recently partnered with Sustainable Innovations and is again producing cannabis products for Illinois dispensaries.

“We will be keeping the same products and adding vape cartridges to our offerings,” said Fully Baked owner Molly Visco. “To accomplish this, we have partnered with Sustainable Innovations, a social equity cannabis company that has core values very similar to ours and the experience to help us grow our brand and develop new products. Sustainable Innovations will be formulating, manufacturing, and distributing the Fully Baked Brand moving forward.”

Some of the top products include Belgian Chocolate Brownies, Caramel Macchiato Chocolate, and Tiramisu Discs. “We are looking forward to making a difference and contributing to the success of our industry,” Visco said. The Fully Baked brand originated in Chicago with the purpose to spread social equity throughout Chicago and to bring Illinois quality cannabis products.

“Our brand began with our founder, Chris Visco, who had been diagnosed with Breast Cancer in 2020,” Visco said. “She built Fully Baked to continue her passion for social equity and providing quality cannabis products to the community. Cannabis made a significant impact in Chris’s life by reducing her symptoms once she began chemo. It completely changed her life. Her goal through Fully Baked was to change other people’s lives, whether they were also sick and needed some relief, or they simply had a hard day at work and the only thing that go them through their day was coming home to some fresh chocolates to help them decompress. Chris passed in October 2023 after her 4-year battle. Fully Baked now lives in her name, backed by her passion and motivation to improve lives.”

Before Chris passed, she had founded the VOWD (Victims of the War on Drugs) Project. The VOWD Project works to close the gap between the insidious impacts on the War on Drugs and the vast opportunities to be had in the burgeoning cannabis industry. VOWD’s mission is to right the wrongs of cannabis prohibition. VOWD fights to make drug war victims whole through expungement and decarceration and to promotes comprehensive cannabis legislation reform that makes space in the cannabis industry for all, including by codifying home grow provisions.

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