[Hostage]

For example, when confronted with the term 'investing' and the source (DEA) of the term,

I used the term in post #62 long before you posted the link to the DEA statement.

I see so...

http://gantdaily.com/2011/12/27/dea-mexican-drug-cartel-extortion-moving-more-into-u-s/

Restaurants, tire companies and car sales lots are among their preferred businesses.

So if drug lords are using profits from illegal drug sales to buy these types of businesses, what would you call such activity if not investing?

In general what would you call someone that uses their money to buy a business? They are not investors? What are they then?

[JustSayNoToNannies]

So if drug lords are using profits from illegal drug sales to buy these types of businesses

The article doesn't say they're buying them - but if they are, the fact remains that as I said, "the last thing a money launderer will do is call attention to the laundering enterprise with terrorizing violence. No support there for your anti-legalization Chicken Little-isms. "