Exactly my point.
Residue is something you find in a pipe or on the floor of your car if you’re too sloppy to vacuum it out.
The baggie implies a much greater amount.
What irritates me is this:
“fresh-faced, innocent looking teenager”
At a ‘west end’ bar [now defunct] the most successful ‘dealer’ was a kid who looked for all the world like Howdy Doody.
I am not exaggerating.
He was so virginal, clean cut, down home, mom & apple pie, All American you’d NEVER suspect he was dealing dope on a huge scale.
Being the rube that I am, I only found out what he was after asking why the local yutes were so enamored with this red haired, pasty faced, freckled ‘cracker’ that they nearly broke their own legs, jumping up to greet him every time he came through the door.
Imagine my surprise.
He looked like every kid in our HS FFA program.
[frankly, I always wondered how he even got in the place to begin with because he looked to be about 16, at best]
“Looks” mean absolutely nothing.
Villainy wears no deadlier guise than that of virtue.