The statutes

“(b)(1) Except as provided in subsection (c) or (d) of this section, any person eighteen years of age or older who violates subsection (a) of this section (A) for a first offense, shall be guilty of a class B misdemeanor, and (B) for any subsequent offense, shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.”

Subsection (c) reduces this to a five-hundred-dollar fine, or a class C misdemeanor on a subsequent offense, below eight ounces.

“(D) one kilogram or more of a cannabis-type substance.”

“(2) Any person who violates subdivision (1) of this subsection (A) for a first offense, shall be imprisoned not less than five years or more than twenty years… The execution of the mandatory minimum sentence imposed by the provisions of this subdivision shall not be suspended…”

“No person may knowingly possess drug paraphernalia in a drug factory situation as defined by subdivision (20) of section 21a-240 for the unlawful mixing, compounding or otherwise preparing any controlled substance for purposes of violation of this chapter.”

“(B) ‘Factory’ means any place used for the manufacturing, mixing, compounding, refining, processing, packaging, distributing, storing, keeping, holding, administering or assembling of illegal substances contrary to the provisions of this chapter, or any building, rooms or location which contains equipment or paraphernalia used for this purpose.”

Subparagraph (A) defines drug paraphernalia to include equipment used in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing or concealing a controlled substance.

“Any person who violates any provision of sections 21a-243 to 21a-282, inclusive, for which no penalty is expressly provided, (1) for a first offense, may be fined not more than three thousand five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than two years, or be both fined and imprisoned, and (2) for any subsequent offense, shall be guilty of a class C felony.”