{"id":246048,"date":"2026-07-17T18:56:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246048\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T18:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:56:34","slug":"health-officials-probe-8-great-tuesdays-cannabis-sale-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246048\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Officials Probe 8 Great Tuesdays Cannabis Sale | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"hemp.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Erie News Now has learned that at least one person became sick after consuming a drink sold by a vendor at this week&#8217;s 8 Great Tuesdays event.<\/p>\n<p>A new food truck vendor from New York state was selling a beverage containing cannabis during the summertime event along Erie\u2019s bayfront.<\/p>\n<p>Erie News Now is aware of at least one woman who went to the emergency room after consuming the drink.<\/p>\n<p>Erie Events Executive Director Gus Pine confirmed the situation and said all vendors are inspected by the Erie County Department of Health.<\/p>\n<p>After receiving a complaint, Pine said Erie Events determined the vendor sold a hemp-based protein drink during Tuesday&#8217;s event.<\/p>\n<p>The food truck, which also operates at events in New York state, where recreational cannabis is legal, has been barred from participating in future events in Erie, according to Pine.<\/p>\n<p>The Erie County Department of Health is following up on the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie News Now has learned that at least one person became sick after consuming a drink sold by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[15050,12090,136,138,137,44219,2303],"class_list":["post-246048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-cannabis","tag-emergency-room","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-food-truck","tag-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}