Starting Jan. 1, Alabama retailers who have been selling or want to sell consumable hemp products, including canned beverages, have to comply with a new state law regulating the products.

They’ll do that with the understanding that 11 months later, they may not be able to sell most of those products under an even newer federal law.

“They have to run their own calculus about the likelihood that the federal law will stay the same and take effect (next November,)” said Whitt Steineker, a partner at the Bradley law firm and founder and co-chair of its cannabis industry team.

The federal legislation that reopened the government earlier this month also included a ban on the sale of consumable hemp-derived products with more than 0.4 milligrams of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC. That’s the same

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