It is funny that the OP is from NJ in the US. In that state, years ago, I had a girfriend who did not use but thought the stamped glassines were so cute. She, without my knowledge, saved every empty I had and one day her auntie was searching in her bureau and found a few hundred different stamped bags. She promptly called the police and had ME arrested.
They threatened me with 3 to 5 years which is what the penalty is in NJ for 3rd Degree Possesion of CDS. I was taken to a county jail, I was given a fuc%ing 10,000 US bail, made bail, and 11 days later the test results came back ...THANK G-D that I used to lick those bad boys clean as a whistle because IF I had not, well I would have been in a NJ prison two times instead of one.
The day I got that bail back I made a vow to always take care of the empties myself!
Fast forward a couple of years, E. Harlem and I met up with a guy one day when we were both hitting up the same "nickel" spot. They ended up selling out just before we were to get "Served" and so we began walking across town a few blocks to a "dime" spot. Walking under a scaffolding a temporary door popped open and we were both snatched inside. I had to be pinned because I reacted but they quickly got it under control.
To make a long story short, TNT wanted to nail us on Posession. I was empty, and happy for once, but this kid had like 40 something different empties on him. Cops were looking at him like he was a retard, and so was I now that I was "superior" to him but in the end they let us both go since Possesion of CDS in NYC is a mere 7th Degree misdemeanour and not worth the time to write the DAT (ticket) which is what they used to issue back in the day for Posession.
Finally, a few years back here comes this shite guy, living in Brooklyn, selling his "artwork" for literally tens of thousands of US Dollars. His forte? Taking empty glassines and adhering them to empty canvasses to make 3 dimesional art! He also used empty crack vials but lo and behold, this as%hole was that kid I was busted with!
He was doing something so corny, and so simple and celbreties were eating this shi$ up like it was caviar! 60 Gs a canvass! Glue some glassines and voila! What a fuc%ing scam! I was just pissed that I had never thought of it!!!