Daniel Siebert (ethnobotanist)
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Daniel J. Siebert was an ethnobotanist, pharmacognosist, and author who lived in Southern California.[1]
Siebert studied Salvia divinorum for over twenty years. Based on self-experiments with friends in 1993,[2] he was the first person to unequivocally identify salvinorin A as the active psychoactive compound in Salvia divinorum.[1][3][4] In 1998, Siebert appeared in the documentary Sacred Weeds shown in the United Kingdom.[1] He was interviewed about Salvia divinorum on National Public Radio,[5] Fox News, CNN,[6] Telemundo and his comments have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and The New York Times.[1]
In 2002, Siebert wrote a letter to the United States Congress in which he objected to bill H.R. 5607 introduced by Rep. Joe Baca (D-California) which sought to place Salvia divinorum in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act.[7]