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Opinion: End 49ers attacks, lawsuits — with marijuana

Levi’s Stadium encourages booze-fueled hospitalizations and violence, while prohibiting a legal, less harmful, less chaos-inducing plant.

By Ed Murrieta

The 49ers may have moved on up from the gritty Candlestick to glitzy Levi’s Stadium, but they can’t escape the real and shameful legacy that its owners and much of the Bay Area media wish they could make disappear.

The 49ers have a drinking problem.

It’s now fermented into a public-relations mess that threatens not only fans’ safety but could also threaten super-lucrative Super Bowl 50, which Levi’s Stadium — and, by extension, San Francisco and the 49ers — will host in February.