ABSTRACT
I read the Act alongside an article (‘La Prison Partout’) by a prison campaign group around Michel Foucault, the GIP, written in response to drug control laws introduced in France in the early 1970s to implement new international treaty obligations. I argue that the democratically intolerable consequences of this Act are (i) to intensify the already pernicious side effects of drug control laws, which in their reliance on the strict offense of ‘possession’ compel everyone to become self-securing neoliberal subjects, and (ii) to extend carceral norms to the entire population. Finally, I question the silence of bureaucratic-carceral queer on this whole subject.
