Ringside Seat: Businesswoman Kim Rael From Just-Say-No Era Pushes Cannabis Bill SFNM At a glance, corporate titan Kim Rael seemed like an unlikely convert to the cannabis industry. Rael, 55, was in high school in Raton when occupants of the White House made recreational drugs their target. In her own words, Rael was “the classic Nancy Reagan just-say-no person”. After college at Harvard, Rael went to work for then-U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman. She moved from government to jobs in the financial and technology sectors. Then she pivoted to what she calls “the wellness industry.” In plainer terms, Rael is president and CEO of Azuca, a 3-year-old company whose technology made it possible for edible cannabis to go directly into the bloodstream.