Cannabis is not legal and it has not been decriminalised. It was always illegal for under-18s to use it and it still is. But it is possible that reclassification of the drug last year has changed some attitudes towards it.
There are plenty of - possibly apocryphal - stories of parents allowing their children to smoke cannabis at home because they see it as a better alternative to them heading into town and "binge drinking". And there is anecdotal evidence of teachers noticing pupils turning up for classes unable to concentrate on their studies, which they attribute partly to young people smoking cannabis before going into school.
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