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HIT THE JAY

A SYMPHONY OF car horns echoes along Sunset Boulevard as traffic inches past a modern boutique hotel—the location in which former Laker and NBA champion Matt Barnes sits poolside, prepping his afternoon smoke. Being around the six-foot-eight former power forward, it becomes increasingly apparent that retirement for Barnes doesn’t mean being idle—it means hustling in a number of different industries, including the cannabis sector.

Leaving the NBA has been freeing, Barnes explains as he pops open a black doob tube and slides out a king-size Blue Slush joint. He

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