“Using it as a pure hypnotic – a sleeping pill – is like using an AK-47 as a club to bash your enemies’ heads in.”
The research points to about 0.3 mg as the effective dose. Drugstore tablets sell 3 to 10 mg. More does not work better, it just adds side effects. Melatonin is a timing signal, not a knockout pill, and the supplement aisle sells it as the wrong thing at ten times the dose.