The Dark Reason the Military Printed DO NOT EAT on C-4 Explosives

The Dark Reason the Military Printed DO NOT EAT on C-4 Explosives American soldiers in Vietnam deliberately ate the C-4 explosive packed inside the Claymore mine, chasing a rumored alcohol-like high. This is a forensic descent into what the chemistry actually did once it was inside a human body: how RDX cuts the brain's primary inhibitory brake, why healthy nineteen-year-olds started seizing on the floor of field hospitals, and why it took medicine roughly fifty years to explain the mechanism. The "DO NOT EAT" everyone jokes about was never the real warning. The real one is stranger.