it was? huh. i used to brew my own root beer (like ten years ago, not in the 60s) and i probably still have a bag of sassafras bark laying around somewhere.
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melfie@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Kind of ruins it for me that sassafras was banned in the 1960s for its carcinogenic properties and now all root beer is made from artificial sassafras. I stick with ginger beer myself.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Where I am, the amount is limited but you can make MDMA is you wanted to.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
User half for really good homemade root beer, half for MDMA. That sounds like a fun party.
melfie@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
See the Toxicity section: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassafras
brian@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
interestingly only the bark and its oil are banned. you can still buy the leaves as gumbo file since they don’t have the oil in them. they don’t taste like root beer though