You are exactly correct, Mr Stick. As a former recreational user back in the days of Tubbs & Crockett, a dime bag is used to describe an amount of pot that cost $10. No one sells $10 worth of powdered coke, is so small as to be insignificant. One would want at least a gram of coke, which back in the day would be about $50. Like anything else in this wonderful capitalist society, the more you buy, the less per gram. An ounce of anything is 28 grams. Buying one eighth of an ounce would be 3.5 grams. Common parlance for that amount is called an "8 ball", running between 120 to 130 dollars. Note that the term 8 ball is only used for powdered substances such as coke, meth, smack, etc, not pot. A good amount of coke for the weekend for most recreational users and a friend.
4.7 grams is starting to get more towards the amount for one person that is addicted. A fairly large amount for personal use, but still under the limit for distribution charges. It's a good carry amount for an addict who can afford to keep an ounce or so at home. Like Hunter.
Those are some good insights there. On another thread it came up that there might actually be a “dime” of cocaine, i.e. an amount that could be bought for $10. It would be very small but enough for one high for one person. Like maybe an amount that you could pocket at a concert or something in a fold of paper.
I also wonder if a dime bag of cocaine might have been more of a thing back in the day when ten bucks had more buying power...
But I continue to think that “dime bag” is mainly (and maybe exclusively) a pot term and that whoever described Hunter’s baggie as being “dime-sized” was referencing a dime bag of pot to give a sense of its approximate size. This would make sense given the bag pictured in the early reports which looked to be a fair size and holding a substantial amount of powder rather than a minuscule ten dollar’s worth.