Two weeks after Steve McNair’s death, details about the night of his passing continue to trickle out.
The Tennessee’s state assistant medical examiner revealed Monday that McNair’s blood alcohol level was about .16 when he was shot.
For point of reference, that is roughly twice what Tennessee considers too drunk to drive. McNair was sleeping on his couch when he was killed.
Sahel Kazemi, who shot McNair before turning the gun on herself, had a small amount marijuana in her system at the time of the shooting.
Kazemi admitted to the police that she was high when she was stopped for DUI on July 2.
Who cares! Marijuana had nothing to do with her shooting McNair. Her being a psycho was the reason McNair is dead.
ROSENTHAL,
“. . . McNair had roughly twice the legal amount of alcohol in his system when he was killed.”
Please note that there is no “legal amount of alcohol” if you are an adult and are not driving or otherwise operating restricted machinery. You can’t get in trouble for being at home doing nothing while drunk.
Just a pet peeve of mine when people mischaracterize what alcohol levels are “legal.” McNair could have been so tanked that he died of alcohol poisoning and it would have been legal as long as he was setting on his couch.
it must’ve been the weed!! watch out for Michael Phelps the man must be dangerous!!
Guns don’t kill. People with small amounts of marijuana in their system kill.
.16 BAL?? that explains why he was asleep. Maybe he had a bad case of beer dick and couldn’t service the account that night. She got pissed and closed the account for good.
drugs are bad mmmkay.
“Sahel Kazemi, who shot McNair before turning the gun on herself, had a small amount of marijuana in her system at the time of the shooting.”
Yeah. Probably from when she got pulled over. I’m sure nutcases will latch onto that as YET ANOTHER example of why pot is bad, though.
“The Tennessee’s state assistant medical examiner revealed Monday that McNair had roughly twice the legal amount of alcohol in his system when he was killed.”
I also love this statement…..twice the legal limit for driving a car. I’m pretty sure you can get as drunk as you want, legally, if you’re just planning to sleep on the couch.
In other words, McNair had been driving drunk when he left to go home and was probably passed out when he was killed.
MAry Jane thing is insignificant.
McNair being drunk everynight seems very significant. Was she intoxicated as well???
Who the hell tandem parasails without a little weed in their system??—Duh!!!
“[T}wice the legal amount of alcohol” for a driver. Wasn’t he sitting on a couch? Is there a legal limit for that?
Pot doesn’t kill people … people with guns and ammo kill people.
so what? that doesn’t mean she was high when she shot him. stop trying to say marijuana made her kill him. that’s absurd……
THC stays in your fat cells up to 4-6 weeks
Oh my god… MARIJUANA TURNS YOUNG GIRLS INTO COLD HEARTED KILLERS.
On further study, scientists show that Kazemi ate food within two days of murdering McNair, and was in the act of breathing air when she pulled the trigger. Was it the lobster bisque that made her mad? Was it the oxygen that drove her to KILL? That’s up to the public to decide.
and why does this matter?
Big friggen deal… who doesn’t have a trace of Mary Jane in their system nowadays?
Must have been some killer weed.
OK Florio,
It’s obvious when you decide to laud your congressman for stricter gun control laws that you need to advocate to create a law that prevents whacked out weed smoking women from buying firearms from felons on the street to kill their adulteress lovers. Perhaps that could be provision # 987 of the Florio Bill…
Since McNair was twice the legal limit for alcohol we should probably outlaw drinking since that probably contributed to him being helpless and not able to protect himself from point blank gunshots stemming from adulteress female girlfriend…
I am by no means an expert here, so I am asking. Doesn’t pot stay in your system for up to thirty days? IF so, couldn’t the pot in her system be from two nights earlier when she admitted to smoking it?
OHHHHH!!! it was the dope that made her do it!!! I see, said the blind man!!!
Drugs like marijuanna make you crazy and cause people to do criminal things.
The penalties for marijuanna possession should be increased. It cost society far too much in human trajedy.
Criminals always seem to have marijuanna in their system.
For the good of society whenever you see someone involved with marijuanna please call the police immediately. You do that person, the neighborhood, and society a lot of good by stopping them before they commit worse crimes.
This women was a marijuanna druggie and it turned her into a killer.
Don’t You Wanna Be Cool Kid: Come on, dude. Just take one hit. Don’t you wanna be cool?
I’m So High Kid: [takes drag of joint, makes a womanly cough sound]
Don’t You Wanna Be Cool Kid: Hey, man, what are you doin’?
I’m So High Kid: I’m so high!
[laughs]
I’m So High Kid: Nothing can hurt me.
[puts pump-action rifle in mouth and pulls trigger]
Don’t You Wanna Be Cool Kid: Nooo!
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Is there an implication that the Marijuana had something, like in Harold and Kumar, to do with her actions, or is it just another factoid that will spur further discussion about the perils of that lady Mary Jane?
I think it’s pretty safe to say that her having smoked a little weed didn’t have anything at all to do with her shooting McNair. Of course the anti-pot idiots will jump all over this.
that (to me) is irrelevant if she was really high she would’ve hugged it out with him
People don’t shoot other people when they are a mile high on marijuana, let alone have small traces in their system, which could realistically linger for 30 days or longer. Drunk, MAYBE. Spun on meth, crack, crank, speed, MAYBE. Twisted on pcp or lsd or something, MAYBE. Herbs???? NO WAY. Makes me laugh every time I see an article in the real media or elsewhere that mentions someone had pot in their system, as if that implicates the person in some way. In this case, she SHOULD have been smoking MORE, and she would have laid the gun down, ate a twinkie and passed out with nobody dying that night.
How do we know that the gun dealer actually sold Kazemi the gun? Could he have been in contact with Kazemi only to buy her car, whereby she said that she knew McNair. The the gun dealer, seeing a robbery opportunity, went to the apartment where Kazemi said he could contact her, and robbed-murdered them?
“Gilliam, 33, was convicted in Miami-Dade County, Fla., in 1993 of three counts of armed robbery and second-degree mu
Non story. First of all, there is no “legal amount” of alcohol, unless you are driving, and last time I checked, sleeping on a couch isn’t driving.
Second, she admitted she was high 2 days earlier, and THC can reside in your system for up to 30 days (main reason random drug testing at work, for THC anyway, is a bullshit invasion of your privacy) so it isn’t like she definitely smoked a big ole fatty right before she offed him.
Slow day?
Welcome back my friends to the [freak] show that never ends…Come inside, come inside…
well there you have it. if you smoke pot you are a murderer
It must be that Marijuana caused her to stab him in the back of the head and then shoot him. It’s the only logical conclusion. I’m sure the anti-drug campaign will have a commercial touting this as fact next week.
The story is only gonna get worse. Nothing good can be said about what happened…
that said, don’t demonize (sp) weed
with props to EL&P…
Guns don’t kill people…. herb does
MEMO
From: NFL Imperial Headquarters
To: All NFL Head Coaches
Re: Mary Jane
Let it be known that, in light of new startling information regarding the slaying of Steve McNair, it will be mandatory for all teams to show “Reefer Madness”, in its entirety, no fewer than four times per month to all players.
No one is exempt. Fines for non-compliance will be swift and savage.
Have a nice day,
The Roger
He was sleeping when he was shot. Tennessee has a legal amount of alcohol limit for sleeping? Why release this information?This is something you would tell if he was caught driving.
So what you wanna charge McNair for a DUI Dying Under the Influence?!?
He was not driving so why would it matter if he had twice the legal limit to drive? Seems like a moot point to bring up.
I didn’t know there was a LEGAL LIMIT to the amount of alcohol one is allowed to drink (while not driving). They make it sound like he was breaking the law by getting drunk.
THC stays in your system for weeks. Trace amounts probably mean she got high few days earlier. Sounds like Kazemi was the DD that night. Disturbing to know that she may have committed these acts stone cold sober. I originally just assumed that alcohol played a role in here decision making that night.
Its true, Marijuana KILLS!!!!!
The movie was right!
P. oor
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T. itan
wow…………reefer. What correlation are you trying to make. I would guess that at least a quarter of Americans have a small amount of marijuana in their system. Big deal.
Just like Reefer Madness…it turned her into a homicidal maniac. Seems to me that he drove over there very drunk, passed out a short time later and got shot. Not only was he a philandering adulterer but someone who put people at risk with his irresponsible driving habits.
“wonkychow says:
July 20, 2009 4:20 PM
wow…………reefer. What correlation are you trying to make. I would guess that at least a quarter of Americans have a small amount of marijuana in their system. Big deal.”
And a quarter of that quarter get excited when you say “quarter.”
Are you f-ing kidding me???? This is a riot. The crazy bitch needed to smoke more….then maybe she would have chilled out and gone and got a frosy instead of killing a great football player.
To the dude that said weed is the reason for killing Mcnair…….you must have never smoked it…..
Okay, before we get another 20 emails saying, “what does it matter what the legal limit is; there is no limit for drinking on the couch,” read what was said:
“For point of reference, that is roughly twice what Tennessee considers too drunk to drive. McNair was sleeping on his couch when he was killed.”
Rosenthal isn’t making a judgment regarding McNair’s alcohol level, he’s just making a reference point to what that level is. Of course, based on some of these comments, I’m sure a few of you already know full well what the legal limit is and are probably well over it by the time you write.
For those idiots that are talking about the “legal limit” for sitting on the couch… you seem to be forgetting that he drove himself home to get to that couch less than 30 minutes prior to being shot’.
Face it, people call this girl a ‘crazy bitch’ or whatever and that may be true. But this situation was caused by McNair, 100% his fault. May as well be marked as a ‘suicide-suicide’. He’s completely to blame.
maybe had she had a few more puffs Mcnair would still be here
Florio, where the hell did you drag up this idiot Greg Rosenthal from? damn……. every one of his articles has been garbage.
65% of America smokes pot, and they are far less dangerous that anyone who drinks.
Display Name:
what makes you think he didn’t drink in that 30 minutes?
There is no rational reason you can think of that this was 100% McNair’s fault. The girl was psycho if it wasn’t him that it would’ve been the boyfriend. He can’t be to blame for her own personal financial decisions that caused all of this.
if she was really under the influence of pot she would have been eating all the potato chips in the condo instead of shooting the dirty old man.
she was pissed over the dui episode and the fact he was ditching her.
Maybe Steve was suppose to score some more weed on his way back from getting piss drunk, forgot, and she flipped!
Now you have a REAL motive for murder.
WorldChampionBears2009 says:
July 20, 2009 6:32 PM
Display Name:
what makes you think he didn’t drink in that 30 minutes?
There is no rational reason you can think of that this was 100% McNair’s fault. The girl was psycho if it wasn’t him that it would’ve been the boyfriend. He can’t be to blame for her own personal financial decisions that caused all of this.
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Yeah, he got to twice the legal limit and passed out in 30 minutes or less…. ok….
Why was this 100% his fault? Well, was he married? Was he screwing around on his wife?
If he had kept his pecker in his pants except for when he was with his wife then he’d be alive. End of story.
He was out cheating on his wife, betraying his family.
air mcnair was older and should have known better.
he apparently led her on… he thought with his little head.
if he didnt put the original move on her it never would have happened.
so, wcb. it is mcnair’s fault.
be careful out there.
# Display Name says: July 20, 2009 3:29 PM
In other words, McNair had been driving drunk when he left to go home and was probably passed out when he was killed.
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# VaBrownsfan1 says: July 20, 2009 4:36 PM
Just like Reefer Madness…it turned her into a homicidal maniac. Seems to me that he drove over there very drunk, passed out a short time later and got shot. Not only was he a philandering adulterer but someone who put people at risk with his irresponsible driving habits.
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Display Name says: July 20, 2009 4:52 PM
For those idiots that are talking about the “legal limit” for sitting on the couch… you seem to be forgetting that he drove himself home to get to that couch less than 30 minutes prior to being shot’.
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A friend of McNair, who owns the Blue Moon Lagoon, the bar that McNair was at the night he died, arranged for him to be driven home. McNair didn’t drive himself home.
She shot him because he would not pay for the noise job that she needed.
Paul_R. says:
July 20, 2009 7:34 PM
A friend of McNair, who owns the Blue Moon Lagoon, the bar that McNair was at the night he died, arranged for him to be driven home. McNair didn’t drive himself home.
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The evidence that has been released has proven that to be incorrect.
Display Name says: July 20, 2009 8:20 PM
The evidence that has been released has proven that to be incorrect.
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http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/content/city-news/friends-paint-picture-mcnair-s-final-hours
One of those in attendance at Blue Moon Lagoon was McNair’s close friend Doug Crow. Crow is co-owner of popular Nashville restaurants, including The Crow’s Nest, The Corner Pub in the Woods, The Alley and Dalton’s in Bellevue and The Corner Pub in Midtown.
Multiple attempts to reach Crow have been unsuccessful and friends tell NashvillePost.com that he has been “shattered” by the loss of what they called “his best friend Steve McNair.”
Sources say that when McNair finally left the Blue Moon Lagoon in the early hours of July 4, Crow had a driver take McNair home. They say that the driver took McNair home alone.
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You were saying?
“Bigbluefan says:
July 20, 2009 8:14 PM
She shot him because he would not pay for the noise job that she needed.”
Is that how they found the bodies? Her apartment wasn’t soundproof so neighbors heard the gunshots?
mcnair was drunk because he had a psycho girlfriend and a wife whom hated his kids. (RAGEDY BASTARD). weed had nothing to do with killing him but i see why she worked at a food joint
Bob Nelson says:
July 20, 2009 3:48 PM
You all have to go read this post. This person has obviously never been “high”.
The only reason a “stoner” would have killed McNair is becaue he would go buy some Doritos. Puff, Puff, Passsssssssss
I see everybody talking about normal everyday drug use, but who here hasn’t shot someone sleeping on the couch?
I usually put one or two in the leg the first time around, but have been tempted by the headshot on several occasions.
She should’ve smoked more, thus negating her desire to pull something off like this.
And doesn’t pot stay in your system for about 30 days and longer if you’re a cronic user?
Who cares, she shot the man while he was asleep and the pot had nothing to do with it, unless you totaly believe Reefer Madness…
Did ya ever shoot Steve McNair?
Did ya ever shoot Steve McNair… on weed?
“The Tennessee’s state assistant medical examiner revealed Monday that McNair’s blood alcohol level was about .16 when he was shot.”
Really? He was drinking the night he passed out on the couch of his crash pad? OMG!!! I can’t believe this news didn’t break on CNN!
In other stunning news, scientists announced today that grass is green and the sky is blue.
Bob Nelson says:
July 20, 2009 3:48 PM
Drugs like marijuanna make you crazy and cause people to do criminal things.
The penalties for marijuanna possession should be increased. It cost society far too much in human trajedy.
Criminals always seem to have marijuanna in their system.
For the good of society whenever you see someone involved with marijuanna please call the police immediately. You do that person, the neighborhood, and society a lot of good by stopping them before they commit worse crimes.
This women was a marijuanna druggie and it turned her into a killer.
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This is a joke, right? Please, please tell me this is a joke.
Bob Nelson watches Fox News and supports George W Bush, so it’s probably not. Conservatives have their own prepackaged reality.