The washes removed a total of 14% of the plant’s biomass, a lot of which I am sure is safrole. Safrole has a distinctive and strong root beer taste and odor and so you can easily detect it with your taste buds and nose. Before the wash, the taste is like very strong root beer, and the smell is fantastic. After the wash, the boot beer taste and smell are faint, so a large portion of safrole is removed. I would say near 90% is removed by the wash. The wash is VERY DARK, nearly black. There is some safrole remaining after the washes, I'm sure, because there is a slight smell of root beer and faint taste of it left behind.

I do use the term loosely. I would classify MDMA as a psychedelic, but others do not. SWIM has extensive experience with many different kinds of psychoactives: alcohol, marijuana, tobacco, ephedra, strychnine, atropine, scopolamine, hyoscyamine, coffee, yerba mate, guayusa, kola nut, cacao, cocaine, passionflower, caapi, peganum harmala, DCM, DMT, 5-MeO-DMT, 5-HO-DMT, yohimbe, mescaline, psilocin, LSD, DOM, DOI, muscimol, kava, calamus, sassafras, damiana, valerian, ginkgo, to name just a few. SWIM has tried somewhere near 100 different psychoactives in his life.

SWIM is very attuned to the various small nuances of each stimulant, each psychedelic, each sedative, etc. He can tell the difference between most of them blindfolded. SWIM has been studying the effects of herbs since he was 11 years old.

I know you tend to be a skeptic, and I was too for a long time. As a teenager I drank sassafras a lot and never got any effects at all from it. So these findings are a surprise to me. Perhaps the sassafras SWIM has now is simply fresher or more potent. I’m not sure. But it is definitely mildly psychedelic, not just a stimulant or other simple psychoactive. I classify yohimbe as a mild psychedelic too.

The dosage needed for sassafras to be mildly psychedelic is very large. 20 grams is far more than people use to make tea, and you need to NOT use heat. So lots of people who try large doses don’t get much out of it and simply think it’s not really active. That is what I thought. I used to make tea of 20 grams or more, but I always boiled it, which ruins the effects.

Bufoman, rather than take my word for it, you really ought to give it a try yourself. It’s not illegal and is easy to do. You can get mild MDMA like effects from 20 grams of powdered root bark and cold water only.

Here’s how you do it the easy way just to verify that it is psychedelic. Mix the powdered sassafras bark for about 10 minutes in two cups of cold water. Then strain it into a cloth tea bag. Then squeeze out every last bit of the water. As long as no heat is used and the bark is good quality bark, I guarantee you’ll get a mild sedating MDMA like psychedelic effect from it. (The effect is very different if a MEK wash is performed before extracting with cold water.)

Without isolating all of the possible actives and testing each separately, it's really hard to say anything for sure. But I do know a large percentage of the safrole is removed by the wash and the effects after the wash are extremely different, and almost nearly as active.

I’m not interested in SWIM testing safrole first hand. He does have the skills to easily isolate it. But as mentioned above, it is a carcinogen in rats, so it is possible to also be a carcinogen in man. It’s something to be cautious with. Also, from what I’ve read, safrole seems to be very unpleasant. I’m hoping someone else already has first hand experience with safrole, someone I can talk with on this forum.