So I had to see for myself. There is in fact safrole in basil. You can in fact make isosafrole from basil essential oil. This info is fairly useless though because you’d need to run a mass amount of basil to get enough safrole to make anything out of it.
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Questionable1
...opens up basil farm 
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April 6, 2020
Billcypher
Questionable1 I’ve been looking into piper auritum as a substitute to using sassafras root bark. It’s still a lesser yield than using the sass bark but if u live in the tropics u can just grow it yourself and the shit grows like a weed and then you got a free source of safrole.
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April 6, 2020
Questionable1
I live in a sub tropical rainforest in Australia. I know the Golden Sassafras is native to my area but have no idea the potential of it.... This kinda stuff gets me excited to no end!!
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April 6, 2020
Billcypher
Questionable1 you should do some research on it and try it. You may be on to a great discovery. I’m in the subtropics also but in the USA and piper does grow here. We have sassafras trees here also but they don’t grow until about 200 miles north of me.
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April 7, 2020