In perhaps the final chapter of a bloodstained saga, convicted killer Shamduh Wilson got another prison term last week for conspiring to murder the prime witness to his first killing.

Still only in his mid-twenties, Wilson is already serving a 38-year sentence for manslaughter in that original case, in which he shot an innocent bystander in 2005 in a Brooklyn bodega. The new sentence, 12 to 25 years for trying to kill the witness — who was Wilson's original target in the first place — will run consecutively.

Unlike at his conviction last month, Wilson uttered no fearsome comments to the prosecutor. He was tight-lipped. But the tragedy of errors speaks for itself.

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​In this week's cover story, writer Keegan Hamilton investigates the controversy surrounding ibogaine, the experimental hallucinogen drug that has helped kick meth and heroin addictions.

Ibogaine is illegal, even though its power to cure addicts has been proven. Hamilton's story describes the many reasons the medical establishment and the government are wary of Ibogaine, despite its benefits, but one of them really stood out:

Because Ibogaine is an outright cure, drug companies want nothing to do with it.

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While Hurricane Tomas batters Haiti today, none of the $1.15 billion in aid pledged by the United States after last January's devastating earthquake has arrived. Ten months since the 7.3 magnitude quake killed 230,000 people and only weeks after news of a cholera outbreak, the aid money is still stuck in D.C.

With a million Haitians already mired in refugee camps before the hurricane hit, a Voice look shows that the fingerpointing between Haitian activists and USAID will likely increase.

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