Pharmaceutical liquid midazolam took about 6 mgs to knock me down.
Quality pills, 7.5 mgs will do it, and typical cheap generics from overseas, 15 mgs.
To give you an idea, a 2 mg xanax makes me a little speedy, and mentally foggy.

Estazolam works to put you asleep, but I find the hangover strong. It lacks the euphoria of its methylated kissing cousin alprazolam.

Nitrazepam falls somewhere between xanax and versed, and the flowering queen of them all is nimetrazepam, now just a legend living on in our hearts...

For me, midazolam is probably the best for plain old sleep.. . And when looking at the dosages above, cut them in half unless your the kind fo bloke that wakes up 3-4 times during surgury when it took 5 attempts to make the anaesthesia put you under.

I love the look of sheer terror on a nurses face when they have your ribs spread, and you pipe up in the middle of surgury, "excuse me, could I have just a little more dilaudid? I can feel you cutting throuhg the cartilege."

This when you are supposed to be under...