Perry starts new hemp selling business
Zah Not-soo Boohee owner Patazikivaa Perry checks on the hemp plants.
By ROSELYNN YAZZIE
Sho-Ban News
FORT HALL — Zah Not-Soo Boohee (Good Medicine Plant) is the first tribal member owned hemp selling business on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation offering a variety of CBD products, such as CBD oil extracts, lotions, tea bags, and pre-rolled cigarettes.
Owner Patazikivaa Perry said the products are meant to help people with health benefits, such as arthritis, pain relief, relieves anxiety, reduces blood sugar, reduces nausea, reduces seizures, neuroprotective, anti-inflammatory, helps sleep, heart benefits, inhibits cell growth in tumors/cancers, treats psoriasis, antidepressant, to name a few.
“A lot of people want to use this but they’re still scared thinking this is illegal on our reservation,” he said. “It’s legal on our reservation.”
Perry said when he lived in Colorado hemp and marijuana were legalized and he had friends who were in the business. He would visit their farms and even had the experience of seeing first hand what CBD does to help cancer patients.
“I want to use this to help more people on the reservation,” he said.
Some of the products offered by Zah Not-soo Boohee.
His father, Robert Perry, also used it to help quit smoking cigarettes and helped him get better quality sleep; he also said it helped his other son through his health issues after a stroke.
Perry sees a lot of people addicted to drugs like opiates and even alcohol.
“This is a medicine that can help a multiple of things. People use it to help fight addictions,” he said. He wants to target not only people who are using but also those who need pain management and don’t want to use pharmaceutical pills and want to go more natural.”
He clarified hemp is not marijuana and the difference is marijuana contains delta-9, which gives one a head high due to the high THC content.
Perry has done other entrepreneurial ventures, such as hide tanning and owns a food truck business. Zah Not-Soo Boohee was issued his tribal business license under agriculture/farming for hemp production and hemp product sales on June 8.
The stipulations of the license reads, “All products grown, bought or sold under this license must meet the ‘Acceptable Hemp THC Level” as required by LWOR-2022-S2. Further, all hemp products grown , bought, or sold under this license must meet compliance and safety standards as approved by the USDA with testing conducted in accordance with LWOR-2022-S2 and final test results must be certified by the lab that was used, test results must be made available to the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Tax Department, and testing must be completed prior to products entering the stream of commerce. All conduct of business must be done in accordance with the Tribal Law & Order Code…”
Other requirements include food handling, manufacture, and sales with hemp products must be done by persons with a valid food handler’s license.
A field of hemp plants growing on Perry's property.
Perry grows all of the hemp on his land and makes the CBD products himself, so he knows everything that’s in it. He makes a full spectrum oil, which includes, CBDA, CBDC, CCBG, THC, THCA and everything that’s in the plant itself. Perry said he can’t go over 0.3 percent THC because of the Farm Bill Act.
The oil can be used on the body, or a few drops under the tongue to ingest, or it can be put in food or drinks.
The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes also has a license to grow hemp with plans for industrial use.
Perry said his end goal is to one day be able to open a dispensary, if the opportunity presents itself. Once successful, he would in return like to give back to the community.
Anyone wanting to know more about Zah Not-Soo Boohee products or want to purchase, may contact Patazikivaa Perry on his Facebook page.
