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• CARTER: Quarterly reports are required. Those reports are available. They send people down from the agencies that do fund us, and they go through our program to make sure that everything we say that we were going to do we are, in fact, doing. That there are no violations of any phase of the contract or anything that we're doing is contrary -. HERKES: So the program review is already done. CARTER: Some people look at that and say yes. Others say no, that's not a critical program review because it's not one that's being done by an independent agency who is then reviewing what we are doing and they have no connection to the Police Department or to any other federal government agency or whatever it may be. RAY: Okay. CARTER: It would be great if you could contract a private company to come in and do that, but I don't think -. HERKES:. What a waste of money. CARTER: We can afford it. RAY: Other questions? ALONZO: I have a question. RAY: Yeah. ALONZO: Talking about marijuana eradication, you know, people that talked about hemp industry here. CARTER: Yeah. ALONZO: What are the Police Department's stand by that? CARTER: Well, obviously, we're not in favor of industrial hemp, and we feel that it's -. This has been studied. The legislature studied this approximately two years ago, and at the time that the independent study that was done for the legislature, it was determined that there was just not a market for industrial hemp in Hawaii. And we have concerns on various aspects. Just one concern that we have here is that we've been taking a look at medical reports coming out, and some of the products that come out would be oil that's derived from the cannabis plant. We are learning now that tests that have been conducted, and I can provide that material if it's necessary to anyone, people who use the oil are testing positive in drug screens. And just from 38