Sassafras Test Results

[StreetProwler]

I recently purchased a substance known as "sassafras." Its a brown clumpy powder similar to powdered ecstasy or mollie. I tested a sample of the powder and it immediately turned black and fizzed.
The trip from "sassafras" is similar to pure mollie with better visuals. A 200 mg dose produced an excellent 4 hour roll which ended abruptly with no lingering "hangover" effects.
Does anyone know what "sassafras" is? I thought it might be MDA but the trip was shorter than an MDA trip.

 

[stardragon]

I know you said "MDMA like but not MDMA" in the PD forum, partly based (I supposed) on the fact that you took 200 mg to get the described effects.
Is it possible that it's simply our old friend MDMA, that the visuals are a fluke of the substance or the time or what have you (I've gotten more visuals with one pill/powder and less with another, though both/all be MDMA) and that that seeming need for 200 mg to achieve desire effect might be accounted for by its being cut with something? (assuming it's not better accounted for by your tolerance, or something)
IME the "no hangover" thing is a usual thing with nice clean molly, although I'm not sure how I could explain an abrupt end - although then again, I never get those ("comedown" is always gradual, never the "crash" some people describe).
I've often wondered what other substances could give a "false positive" in this manner (turn black and fizz) yet not be MDxx, but I don't think there's a way to get a comprehensive list of that. At this point I would say that if it gave the right reaction it's almost certainly MDxx family and most likely MDMA, given the available information.
however IANAC. so here's a grain of salt for you ---> o (i am not a chemist)
[ 08 July 2002: Message edited by: stardragon ]

 

[someguy]

sassafras oil is used in making md** class drugs...

 

[StreetProwler]

Stardragon, thanks for your reply. Upon reflection, "sassafras" seems to be a slang term for molly which has some "leftovers" from the synthesis. The tannish color and smell (a sassafras smell) are unlike what I'm accustomed to handling in the form of white powder with no smell at all.

 

[kiakaha]

sassafras is a tree. knowen also as sassafras albidum
Commonly the roots are used for extraction of the said sassafras.
Sassafras is also one of the main ingredients used in the production of MDMA
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[Roches]

ugh, if an E cook is producing MDMA with residual safrole in it, i strongly suggest he find another occupation.

 

[PlurredChemistry]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Thats the problem...
With skills like that they probably can't find another job.
The bottom of the barrel
hehe not nessessarly but you know what i mean...

 

[kiakaha]

Ok so I should of perhaps posted it stating that sassafras and the right directions is a means of obtaining safrole which is actually or can be the precursor for MDMA.
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[kiakaha]

Actually after further study of the said safrole, it appears that it would be one of the more common precursor for the said MDMA. "Fact"

 

[trigster]

ended abrubtly with no hangover -- sounds like MDEA. in 1997 we got a batch of these triangle-shaped pills, they were red. someone in amsterdam said they were MDEA. StreetProwler -- was it also less druggy, lovey, trippy and rushy - and more cognitave and more clear? at 2 1/2 hours were you on and at 2 1/2 hours + 1 min totally and completly normal and fine like you never even took anything?
i wish i had those red triangles tested to know for sure that they were MDEA. if they were, in fact, that substance, my view is that psychiatrists should be more intrested in mdea for therapy than mdma because mdea doesn't have the rushy/lovey factor. we thought it had the same intense insight but without the massive serotonin rush. i'd like to try them again.