By Jordan Weissmann, The Atlantic.

Patrick Moen is a 36-year-old former supervisor at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, where, until recently, he led a team based in Portland that fought methamphetamine and heroin traffickers.

Now, he is embarking on a career change. A rather dramatic one.  The Wall Street Journal reports today in a delightful article that Moen has become the in-house lawyer at Privateer Holdings Inc., “a private-equity firm that invests solely in businesses tied to the budding legal marijuana industry.”

In other words, the revolving door between business and government just made an unexpected, and very druggy, turn.

Read This Former DEA Agent Is Going to Work in the Marijuana Business at The Atlantic.