Heat press extraction of sassafras?

I might be asking a really stupid question here but has anyone tried this? It seems like when rosintech hit it was such an incredibly simple concept and yet very effective...I was surprised that something so simple hadn’t been discovered a long time ago.

I keep walking past sassafras trees in the woods around my house and then I go home and look at my rosintech smash and wonder. I’m so tempted to try pressing some just to look at the results.

Am I completely off base here? I am not a chemist but it seems that safrole wouldn’t be destroyed by heat since it’s usually extracted using steam distillation. The rosin press goes from 0-400 F if anyone has any idea what temperature sassafras oil would liquefy at. Or can explain to me why I’m being a complete idiot. It seems like the question was worth asking.

I wonder if you grew the tree how many years it wold take to produce

OkieMavis said:

I might be asking a really stupid question here but has anyone tried this? It seems like when rosintech hit it was such an incredibly simple concept and yet very effective...I was surprised that something so simple hadn’t been discovered a long time ago.

I keep walking past sassafras trees in the woods around my house and then I go home and look at my rosintech smash and wonder. I’m so tempted to try pressing some just to look at the results.

Am I completely off base here? I am not a chemist but it seems that safrole wouldn’t be destroyed by heat since it’s usually extracted using steam distillation. The rosin press goes from 0-400 F if anyone has any idea what temperature sassafras oil would liquefy at. Or can explain to me why I’m being a complete idiot. It seems like the question was worth asking.

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Nope. Won't work. At all.

OkieMavis said:

I might be asking a really stupid question here but has anyone tried this? It seems like when rosintech hit it was such an incredibly simple concept and yet very effective...I was surprised that something so simple hadn’t been discovered a long time ago.

I keep walking past sassafras trees in the woods around my house and then I go home and look at my rosintech smash and wonder. I’m so tempted to try pressing some just to look at the results.

Am I completely off base here? I am not a chemist but it seems that safrole wouldn’t be destroyed by heat since it’s usually extracted using steam distillation. The rosin press goes from 0-400 F if anyone has any idea what temperature sassafras oil would liquefy at. Or can explain to me why I’m being a complete idiot. It seems like the question was worth asking.

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Why would you want SAS oil?

canndo said:

Why would you want SAS oil?

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Can be used to make MDA or MDMA

Renfro said:

Can be used to make MDA or MDMA

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Ok, good. I feared you might have assumed that, because a street name for poorly constituted bulk MDMA is "sass" you might have thought that the raw sass was psychoactive. Of course it is not and it is carcinogenic to boot.


That rosin method wont work because pot has those viscus globes of THC containing ...stuff.. On the outside of the leaf or bud. Thus, heat, making the sticky stuff in the trichomes less viscous and pressure, making that stuff flow, makes a difference.

Sass, is inherent chemically within the bark or root. No amount of pressure will expell it.

If you have that amount of raw material and it is at least of average sass content, you might consider doing a steam distillation. It really isn't that hard and an MDMA thirsty world would bless you

Further, current clandestine operations are endangering indigenous species in...hell. Where ever the stuff grows. Brazil?

Think about it. Oh, and anyone with a basic understanding of, say, sophomore level chemistry and access to only a few watched precursors can indeed make their own.

An interesting thoughT...

Even if it works, though... After obtaining the oil; You
are going to need quite a set up to achieve such an endeavor...

Also... Sassafrass oil is known to have very unforgiving impurities; unless cleaned out.