Shaggy Brown, to the left of Mike Tyson, was for many years the cannabis supplier for many of Hollywood’s elite | Credit: Shaggy Brown handout
viraltrendingcontent had the opportunity to speak with Shaggy Brown, who, before going all corporate, was a cannabis supplier to the biggest stars, including Mike Tyson, Snoop Dogg, Chris Brown, Usher, DMX, Bow Wow, Jermaine Dupri, the infamous Sean Diddy Combs, and many more. And he’s shared the photos to prove it.
“I was a cannabis connoisseur to the stars and how they lived,” says Shaggy Brown, reflecting on a career that has spanned more than 25 years inside the overlapping worlds of music, cannabis, and celebrity culture. “I worked with some of the biggest names, as far as Chris Brown, the Ushers, to Fabolous, Timberland, Swizz Beatz, DMX…” It was DMX, the late rapper whose gravel-throated delivery defined a generation of hardcore hip hop, who christened him Shaggy more than two decades ago.
“DMX gave me the name Shaggy 25 years ago,” he says. “Rest in peace.” The name stuck. Over time, it became shorthand in Hollywood circles: Shaggy, the man who could source the most potent, cleanest cannabis when artists needed it most, whether to fuel creativity, manage the pressures of fame, or blunt the edge of trauma. “I was the weed man to the stars,” he says. “Helping them get the best cannabis, for them to be creative, for them to be athletes, and be able to deal with pain, trauma, all kinds of stuff. Cannabis helps with a lot of that. Celebrities have a lot of trauma, so they need to be stronger than the strongest, sometimes even to actually deal with life.”
Hollywood’s elite recognised the quality
Brown came up not through cultivation himself but through relationships. “I had friends that were cultivators before I even knew what cultivation was,” he says. Hollywood’s elite quickly recognised the quality and trusted his word. That trust turned him into a gatekeeper in a world where consistency is everything.
“It’s more so medicine than actually recreational,” he says.
The landscape has shifted since the early days. Legalisation in multiple states has opened doors but also blurred lines. For Brown, the new challenge is branding and authenticity. That is why he is now throwing his weight behind Dr Green, a blockchain-powered cannabis platform promising transparency and consistency across borders.
“What Dr Green is doing is creating a platform using blockchain to authenticate cannabis,” he says. “It really comes down to marketing after that. Any brand is going to win if you have a big push; it doesn’t have to be celebrity-driven.”
Spoofing and inconsistency
The business case is clear. Dr Green was built to tackle one of cannabis’s most significant challenges: spoofing and inconsistency. In a fragmented industry, black-market strains often slip into legal supply chains, sometimes laced with pesticides, fibreglass, or even opioids.
Dr Green addresses this by tracking every plant from seed to finished flower, logging the conditions of cultivation: the amount of water used, the number of people who touched the plant, the humidity of the room, all while recording it immutably.
This is provenance at an industrial scale, a guarantee of purity that can restore trust across markets. As Maximillian White, the founder of Dr Green, says: “We are producing clean, healthy plants, and we can prove it.”
Shaggy Brown’s role is to take that guarantee into America, bridging the gap between cultivators, celebrities, and consumers.
Beyond cannabis, he nods to wider plant-based therapies, including psychedelics, as part of a growing cultural shift toward wellness. Yet his focus remains firmly on cannabis as medicine, with CBD and plant remedies taking precedence over pharmaceuticals.
CBD is good for dog bites
“Two dogs bit me at the same time,” he says, “and all I used was CBD to heal. I’m a firm believer in plants. Plants can regenerate, and we are plants.”
Shaggy Brown, the man once known only as the “weed man to the stars,” is now stepping into the corporate space, positioning himself not just as a supplier but as a strategist and cultural bridge. His next stage involves scaling, structure, and trust.
“Everything’s got to be strategic,” he says. “But I really think Dr Green is the future, because it can blend technology and medicine seamlessly.”
The kid from Hollywood’s back rooms has become the hand inside the glove, as his interviewer put it. Shaggy laughs at the metaphor. “That’s a good way to put it,” he agrees. The man who once carried strains across Los Angeles is now preparing to carry an industry across the country and the globe.
