I’ve gotten so cynical and the war on drugs is so f*cked up and counter productive, that my very first thought was this was done by the DEA themselves to try and scare US citizens.
They are losing huge amounts of tax payer dollars due to very successful legalization attempts, nothing that some good ol’ FUD and fear tactics can’t cure. 
My rational brain tells me this is probably not the case, but they’ve done much worse in the past.
