Dems Relent On Vote To Change Michigan Medical Marijuana Law

Legislators Vote To Revise Michigan Medical Marijuana Law
FILE - In this Tuesday Jan. 26, 2010 file photo, a pedestrian walks past neon sign advertising a medical marijuana provider along a street in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles City Council reversed course Tuesday Oct. 2, 2012, and repealed a ban on pot shops that it passed just two months ago to shutter hundreds of medical marijuana storefronts. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)
FILE - In this Tuesday Jan. 26, 2010 file photo, a pedestrian walks past neon sign advertising a medical marijuana provider along a street in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles City Council reversed course Tuesday Oct. 2, 2012, and repealed a ban on pot shops that it passed just two months ago to shutter hundreds of medical marijuana storefronts. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

LANSING (AP) - Democrats in the Michigan Senate first declined, then decided to give majority Republicans enough votes to make changes sought to the voter-approved medical marijuana law.

During marathon sessions late Thursday and early Friday, the Senate failed to pass bills by a necessary three-fourths vote requiring patients to show photo identification to get a medical marijuana card and clarify the type of doctor-patient relationship needed before marijuana use could be certified. But enough Democrats relented as the hours passed and switched their votes.

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