I didn't have good experiences with the benzodiazepines, or sleeping pills. The Sleeping meds actually made me sleep walk. I did everything from cooking eggs in my sleep (that almost burnt the house down) to hunt the ninjas on the roof of my parents 3 story home in the middle of winter. No joke, my wife woke up and noticed I wasn't in the bed, or in the house so she went outside. I snuck up behind her and put her in a choke hold. Being a lifelong wrestler and mixed martial artist, not the best scenario.

Marijuana (vaporized or ingested never smoked) was the magic bullet for me, especially when on pain medications, helped me get off and stay off the opiates. I use it occasionally to help with pain, and to sleep, with the on side effects of making every thing funnier and the constant need to eat.