Can’t vouch for current practice, but I survived Cocaine Madness in 1980s Hollywood, so I’m way more familiar with coke than you’d think, given that I’d rather have a good cup of coffee, really. I don’t really like coke.
And, yeah, lotsa people took delivery of small retail quantities of coke - generally a gram or less, usually a quarter gram - in small folded paper envelopes known as “paper bindles” (also used by forensic evidence collectors and other science involving small scrapings or powdered samples)
And while some folks would decant their bindles into glass vials, many people just kept the bindle in their wallet.
Because, you see, a cop could find a vial during a pat-down search for weapons with no warrant needed, but would need a warrant to search your wallet.
Hand him JUST the license. (-:
(Many cops on traffic stops will insist you ONLY hand them your license, rather than your whole wallet, so that there’s no room for accusations of shenanigans - tampering, theft, bribery, illegal search and such.)
(And yes, I realize that “needs a warrant” doesn’t always translate to “gives a shit about needing a warrant”; but remember, these were (generally) white Hollywood high-rollers, not ghetto gangbangers.)
But, yeah, folded paper bindles in the wallet. Quite common.
Here’s folding instructions:
How To Fold a Seed Bindle
