Class C Narcotics are usually prescription medications which sometimes get misused.
The Class C narcotics includes prescription tranquilizers and prescription narcotics such as Clonazepam, diazepam (Valium), and Hydrocodone (Vicodin;) Also mescaline, mushrooms (“psilocybin,”) and similar hallucinogenic drugs.
What is a Type C drug?
A category of controlled drugs (under the UK Misuse of Drugs Act 1971) which are the least dangerous, including benzodiazepines, stimulants, and sedatives.
Examples. Alprazolam, Librium, rohypnol, Valium.
What is the difference between a Class A and a Class C drug?
Class A drugs represent those deemed most dangerous, and so carry the harshest punishments.
Class C represents those thought to have the least capacity for harm, and so the Act demands more lenient punishment.