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Kirk Douglas handed his son a $10,000 check at 21 and said "You're on your own, kid." Michael paid for school buying weed at $75 a kilo and selling it for up to $700, in suitcases his dad gave him. "Your brother Michael never asked me for anything," Kirk told his other sons for 30 years. In the video below, Michael Douglas tells Joe Rogan what he finally confessed to his dad. He was 21 and in college. "He took a checkbook. He wrote a check. He gave me $10,000," he says. Rogan points out that's more than most of the country ever gets. One Christmas, Kirk bought him two Italian leather suitcases. "Each suitcase could fit 22 kilos of marijuana," Michael says. He'd fly back east with "just the clothes on my back and 44 kilos." A kilo was $75 out west. Back east it went for "five or six hundred, seven hundred dollars," he says. He did it twice. "That was how I got through the rest of the expense of my school," he says. Years later his dad was about to sell the rights to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Michael asked for a year to set it up. The money came from a record label. "Creedence Clearwater Revival paid for Cuckoo's Nest," he says. Kirk wanted the lead. The director and the money man said no. "Michael, Kirk's too old." So Michael told his dad "it ain't gonna happen" and gave him "half of my producing deal." Jack Nicholson got the part. The movie won 5 Oscars, including Best Picture, and made more than $100 million. Kirk saw the final cut and told him, "Michael, it's a hell of a movie." The case for Kirk: He gave his son $10,000 and let him figure out the rest. His son became an Oscar winning producer before he was 32. So was "you're on your own, kid" the best thing Kirk Douglas ever did for his son, or should a movie star's kid never have to sell weed for tuition?