The Irvine City Council announced Aug. 9 that it will spend about $190,000 from the state’s cannabis sales tax for police officers to be better trained to prevent impaired driving.  
Irvine was one of 45 local law enforcement agencies and nonprofits that split more than $12 million from the Highway Patrol Cannabis Tax Fund Grant this year.  
“This is an opportunity to work with various traffic safety stakeholders to help make California’s roadways safer for all who use them,” CHP Commissioner Amanda Ray said in a June 30 statement.  
The funding will help train more officers to perform field sobriety tests as well as to detect, apprehend, test, and prosecute impaired drivers, officials said. …