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Shaahin Cheyene is an Iran<nowiki/>ian born American businessman and filmmaker. He wrote and directed the 2008 documentary film Serpent and the Sun: Tales of an Aztec Apprentice. He is currently the founder and current CEO of the companies Accelerated Intelligence, a maker of nutritional supplements, and Victory Films, a documentary film production company. He was the founder of the now-defunct company Global World Media, a maker of legal intoxicants, From a young age Cheyene wanted to be an entrepreneur. His interest in business was influenced by the writings of Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, as well as by articles in the numerous financial magazines that he regularly read. Herbal is a herbal alternative to the illegal drug MDMA, also known as “ecstasy.” Herbal was sold in the form of a tablet and its ingredients include ephedra (key ingredient), guarana seed, kola nut, green tea, black ginseng, nutmeg, ginkgo biloba and Centella asiatica. From 1991 until its ban from sale in 2004, Herbal was sold in the United States as an over-the-counter drug in drug stores, music stores and other shops in the United States. In 1996, an article in the New York Times He accused federal authorities of trying to discredit his product through media publicity. He said, "If a product is unsafe, they can pull it off the shelf and shut us down, right here and now,but they haven’t done that, because the product isn’t unsafe." Seven U.S. states subsequently filed separate lawsuits to stop the sale of the product, on the grounds that it was a drug being sold without approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In response to accumulating evidence of adverse effects and deaths related to ephedra, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned the sale of ephedra-containing supplements in 2004. The ban was upheld in 2006 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Studies on herbal Charles Grob, Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine and Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, conducted a government approved study on MDMA, and confirmed that herbal had nothing in common with the real thing. He said taking an herbal was "like drinking seven or eight cups of strong coffee." Filmography Cheyene wrote and filmed Serpent and the Sun: Tales of an Aztec Apprentice, a documentary about the life and roots of an Aztec medicine man and his apprentice in Mexico City. The film has been recognized and screened at: *2008 Pasorobles film festival *2008 Mendocino film festival *2008 High definition film festival *2008 Buffalo Niagara Falls Film Festival *2009 Mexico International Film Festival, co-winner, Silver Palm award, documentary *2009 Wild Rose Independent Film Festival, Best Documentary award He also wrote 2012: Change, Apocalypse and the End of the World.
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