About Daniel Siebert
Daniel Siebert was an anthropologist, botanist and ethnobotanist.
Daniel J. Siebert (1963–2024) was an ethnobotanist, pharmacognosist, and author who lived in Southern California.
Siebert studied Salvia divinorum for over twenty years. Based on self-experiments with friends in 1993, he was the first person to unequivocally identify salvinorin A as the active psychoactive compound in Salvia divinorum. In 1998, Siebert appeared in the documentary Sacred Weeds shown in the United Kingdom. Fox News, CNN, Telemundo and his comments have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and The New York Times.
Siebert died in 2024 from alcoholism and heart issues including a heart attack.
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