The first thing you need to know about the Southland’s newest pot-superstore-meets-theme-park — Planet 13 Orange County, which opens to the public in Santa Ana today — is that it’s big. Like furniture-store big, CityTarget big and largest-dispensary-in-California big.
The second thing you need to know is that even if you’ve never heard of Planet 13’s over-the-top approach to slinging weed (a larger flagship opened in Las Vegas in November 2018) and your knowledge of pot culture begins and ends with Cheech & Chong’s 1978 stoner comedy “Up in Smoke,” the immersive, entertaining and totally Instagram-worthy approach to cannabis commerce is going to become only more prevalent as the state’s legal marijuana market matures.