Drug Agent Joins Budding Industry

Online Wall Street Journal ^ | Dec. 10, 2013 | By Ryan Dezember

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Government officials regularly leverage their public-sector experience into more lucrative jobs in high finance. One former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration supervisor is giving that track a new twist.

Patrick Moen, a longtime DEA agent, has left a post leading a federal team in Portland, Ore., that combats heroin and methamphetamine trafficking to join a private-equity firm that invests solely in businesses tied to the budding legal marijuana industry.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Congratulations to the DEA on placing a highly effective agent at the highest levels of a private-equity firm focused on legal marijuana.

[a fool in paradise]

Probably not much different than the prosecutors who become DWI defense attorneys, Justice Department officials who become mob defense lawyers, or IRS agents who become tax advisers.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

He’s numero uno in this category.

[DeWalt]

If you can’t beat them, join em.

[Ken H]

Another indication that marijuana prohibition has collapsed.