On May 15th, a sort of French Supreme Court (I am sure many lawyers would sue me or kill me for that comparison !) named Conseil d'Etat (State Council) has quashed the legal ban on poppers.

The decree banning poppers dated back to November 22, 2007. It provided that both the making and the selling of poppers were forbidden. As you can imagine, this decree gave rise to a deluge of mourning among gay men! (Of course, we still had the option of ordering them online from other countries : sometimes globalization is really a blessing, isn't it?)

However, before that decree, most (and best !) poppers were already illegal, because they were too strong. Jungle Juice, Blue Boy, and the like were only available online, and you had to order them from other countries.

So the good news is that poppers are legal again in France, although I am not sure which poppers are going to be legal. The decision issued yesterday explicitly says that if there are dangers associated with the inhalation of poppers, they are rare and happen only when the poppers are consumed in unusual ways; therefore, Judges said, the French Prime Minister's banning them was obviously a disproportionate decision, and he failed to prove that nothing but a total interdiction would solve the problem !

Let us send some bottles to the judges: they deserve them, don't they?