phoenixnewtimes.com PHOENIX NEW TIMES SEPT 15TH–SEPT 21ST, 2022 State Licensed Dispensaries & Doctor Certifications | CANNABIS | Jefro’s Botanicals Jarrett St. Amand, a former Marine, said he donates a portion of sales to support veteran organizations. Healing With Pride Former Marine in Tempe creates CBD cream to help veterans. BY MIKE MADRIAGA O n a recent Saturday, Jarrett St. Amand loaded his SUV with metal tins filled with CBD-infused cream, gath- ered his canna-buddies, and drove west to Adelanto, California. Their destination? Burning Treez Festival, a large cannabis consumer music festival. The former Marine who served in Operation Restore Hope in Somalia in 1992 has been hardcore promoting his Jefro’s Botanicals, which includes two wellness creams, at pot and music shindigs across the Southwest. His first cream, Jefro’s Copper Plus+ Massage Cream, won the Best Topical Award at the Phoenix Cannabis Awards Music Festival in May. St. Amand sells the two-ounce canisters on his website, through online retailers, and at his brick-and-mortar storefront at 610 West Broadway Road in Tempe. He touts the cream, which retails for $64.95, as “the world’s first CBD cream with Bio-Cu1 (copper1).” Rub it, or the extra- strength version, on your body, and “you’ll feel a tingling sensation, with fast absorp- tion, and quick relief from your discom- fort,” St. Amand told Phoenix New Times. Cannabidiol, or CBD, is the nonpsycho- active compound in cannabis that is used by mainstream cream companies to help people with arthritis and soreness. Copper1, on the other hand, “absorbs into the applied area to help increase immune defense and is proven to regrow new blood vessels,” according to the Jefro’s Botanicals site. By combining the two ingredients into his topicals, which he makes locally with organic and locally grown ingredients, St. Amand created a cream that “has touched so many” people suffering from a variety of physical ailments, he said. Some customers who claim to have been helped by Jefro’s Botanicals products have sent St. Amand videos, which he reposts on social media. The extra-strength version of the CBD cream is targeted at people with chronic pain, cuts, scratches, headaches, and gout, St. Amand said. The business’s website makes it clear that the products aren’t “meant to diagnose, treat, cure, or maintain any ailments or diseases in accordance with FDA guidelines.” Customers, though, rave about how the creams help them. More to Come From Jefro’s Botanicals Roy Moody, a Glendale resident who served in the U.S. Air Force for nine years, used the Copper Plus+ Massage Cream to help the gout he said he suffers from in his ankle. “It was gone that day, and anytime I had an issue, I’d just put some Jefro on,” he explained. The cream also helped with a large cyst on his buttocks, he added. “In my record at the main [Veterans’ Adminis- tration Medical Center] in Phoenix, [it says] Jefro’s cream and the bio copper1 made this cyst disappear,” Moody said. Online, the creams are getting props as well. Jefro’s Botanicals has received Star Seller status on Etsy, which reflects atten- tive customer service, five-star reviews, and on-time shipping, according to the >> p 37 35
